Anne is as lovable a child as lives in all fiction . Natasha in Count Tolstoi 's great novel , `` War and Peace , '' dances into our ken , with something of the same buoyancy and naturalness ; but into what a commonplace young woman she develops ! Anne , whether as the gay little orphan in her conquest of the master and mistress of Green Gables , or as the maturing and self-forgetful maiden of Avonlea , keeps up to concert-pitch in her charm and her winsomeness . There is nothing in her to disappoint hope or imagination . Part of the power of Miss Montgomery -- and the largest part -- is due to her skill in compounding humor and pathos . The humor is honest and golden ; it never wearies the reader ; the pathos is never sentimentalized , never degenerates into bathos , is never morbid . This combination holds throughout all her works , longer or shorter , and is particularly manifest in the present collection of fifteen short stories , which , together with those in the first volume of the Chronicles of Avonlea , present a series of piquant and fascinating pictures of life in Prince Edward Island . The humor is shown not only in the presentation of quaint and unique characters , but also in the words which fall from their mouths . Aunt Cynthia `` always gave you the impression of a full-rigged ship coming gallantly on before a favorable wind ; '' no further description is needed -- only one such personage could be found in Avonlea . You would recognize her at sight . Ismay Meade 's disposition is summed up when we are told that she is `` good at having presentiments -- after things happen . '' What cleverer embodiment of innate obstinacy than in Isabella Spencer -- `` a wisp of a woman who looked as if a breath would sway her but was so set in her ways that a tornado would hardly have caused her to swerve an inch from her chosen path ; '' or than in Mrs. Eben Andrews -LRB- in `` Sara 's Way '' -RRB- who `` looked like a woman whose opinions were always very decided and warranted to wear ! '' This gift of characterization in a few words is lavished also on material objects , as , for instance ; what more is needed to describe the forlornness of the home from which Anne was rescued than the statement that even the trees around it `` looked like orphans '' ? The poetic touch , too , never fails in the right place and is never too frequently introduced in her descriptions . They throw a glamor over that Northern land which otherwise you might imagine as rather cold and barren . What charming Springs they must have there ! One sees all the fruit-trees clad in bridal garments of pink and white ; and what a translucent sky smiles down on the ponds and the reaches of bay and cove ! `` The Eastern sky was a great arc of crystal , smitten through with auroral crimsonings . '' `` She was as slim and lithe as a young white-stemmed birch-tree ; her hair was like a soft dusky cloud , and her eyes were as blue as Avonlea Harbor in a fair twilight , when all the sky is a-bloom over it . '' Sentiment with a humorous touch to it prevails in the first two stories of the present book .
The one relates to the disappearance of a valuable white Persian cat XXXXX a blue spot in its tail .
after as from in like of over that to with