Moreover , she is one of those delightful , old-fashioned cooks who do n't care a bit if they ruin your digestion as long as they can give you feasts of fat things . `` I like her ; and she likes me -- principally , it seems , because she had a sister named Anne who died young . '' ` I 'm real glad to see you , ' she said briskly , when I landed in her yard . ` My , you do n't look a mite like I expected . I was sure you 'd be dark -- my sister Anne was dark . And here you 're redheaded ! ' `` For a few minutes I thought I was n't going to like Janet as much as I had expected at first sight . Then I reminded myself that I really must be more sensible than to be prejudiced against any one simply because she called my hair red . Probably the word ` auburn ' was not in Janet 's vocabulary at all . '' ` Wayside ' is a dear sort of little spot . The house is small and white , set down in a delightful little hollow that drops away from the road . Between road and house is an orchard and flower-garden all mixed up together . The front door walk is bordered with quahog clam-shells -- ` cow-hawks , ' Janet calls them ; there is Virginia Creeper over the porch and moss on the roof . My room is a neat little spot ` off the parlor ' -- just big enough for the bed and me . Over the head of my bed there is a picture of Robby Burns standing at Highland Mary 's grave , shadowed by an enormous weeping willow tree . Robby 's face is so lugubrious that it is no wonder I have bad dreams . Why , the first night I was here I dreamed I COULD N'T LAUGH . `` The parlor is tiny and neat . Its one window is so shaded by a huge willow that the room has a grotto-like effect of emerald gloom . There are wonderful tidies on the chairs , and gay mats on the floor , and books and cards carefully arranged on a round table , and vases of dried grass on the mantel-piece .
XXXXX the vases is a cheerful decoration of preserved coffin plates -- five in all , pertaining respectively to Janet 's father and mother , a brother , her sister Anne , and a hired man who died here once !
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