He said his mother used to make quilts like that , and by Jove , he wanted one to remind him of her . Anne would not sell it , much to his disappointment , but she wrote all about it to Mrs. Lynde . That highly-gratified lady sent word back that she had one just like it to spare , so the tobacco king got his quilt after all , and insisted on having it spread on his bed , to the disgust of his fashionable wife . Mrs. Lynde 's quilts served a very useful purpose that winter . Patty 's Place for all its many virtues , had its faults also . It was really a rather cold house ; and when the frosty nights came the girls were very glad to snuggle down under Mrs. Lynde 's quilts , and hoped that the loan of them might be accounted unto her for righteousness . Anne had the blue room she had coveted at sight . Priscilla and Stella had the large one . Phil was blissfully content with the little one over the kitchen ; and Aunt Jamesina was to have the downstairs one off the living-room . Rusty at first slept on the doorstep . Anne , walking home from Redmond a few days after her return , became aware that the people that she met surveyed her with a covert , indulgent smile . Anne wondered uneasily what was the matter with her . Was her hat crooked ? Was her belt loose ? Craning her head to investigate , Anne , for the first time , saw Rusty . Trotting along behind her , close to her heels , was quite the most forlorn specimen of the cat tribe she had ever beheld . The animal was well past kitten-hood , lank , thin , disreputable looking . Pieces of both ears were lacking , one eye was temporarily out of repair , and one jowl ludicrously swollen . As for color , if a once black cat had been well and thoroughly singed the result would have resembled the hue of this waif 's thin , draggled , unsightly fur . Anne `` shooed , '' but the cat would not `` shoo . ''
As long as she stood he sat back XXXXX his haunches and gazed at her reproachfully out of his one good eye ; when she resumed her walk he followed .
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