This last was for Mrs. William , but was delivered in a prudent undertone . Jordan detested Mrs. William , but she was a power to be reckoned with , all the same . Meek , easy-going Billy Morrison did just what his wife told him to . So Aunty Nan did not get to Kensington to hear little Joscelyn sing . She said nothing more about it but after that night she seemed to fail very rapidly . Mrs. William said it was the hot weather , and that Aunty Nan gave way too easily . But Aunty Nan could not help giving way now ; she was very , very tired . Even her knitting wearied her . She would sit for hours in her rocking chair with the gray kitten in her lap , looking out of the window with dreamy , unseeing eyes . She talked to herself a good deal , generally about little Joscelyn . Mrs. William told Avonlea folk that Aunty Nan had got terribly childish and always accompanied the remark with a sigh that intimated how much she , Mrs. William , had to contend with . Justice must be done to Mrs. William , however . She was not unkind to Aunty Nan ; on the contrary , she was very kind to her in the letter . Her comfort was scrupulously attended to , and Mrs. William had the grace to utter none of her complaints in the old woman 's hearing . If Aunty Nan felt the absence of the spirit she never murmured at it . One day , when the Avonlea slopes were golden-hued with the ripened harvest , Aunty Nan did not get up . She complained of nothing but great weariness . Mrs. William remarked to her husband that if SHE lay in bed every day she felt tired , there would n't be much done at Gull Point Farm . But she prepared an excellent breakfast and carried it patiently up to Aunty Nan , who ate little of it . After dinner Jordan crept up by way of the back stairs to see her .
Aunty Nan was lying with her eyes fixed on the pale pink climbing roses that nodded XXXXX the window .
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