`` You do n't mind calling in at Elisha Wright 's for a moment , do you ? '' asked Diana . `` Mother asked me to leave this little dish of jelly for Aunt Atossa . '' `` Who is Aunt Atossa ? '' `` Oh , have n't you heard ? She 's Mrs. Samson Coates of Spencervale -- Mrs. Elisha Wright 's aunt . She 's father 's aunt , too . Her husband died last winter and she was left very poor and lonely , so the Wrights took her to live with them . Mother thought we ought to take her , but father put his foot down . Live with Aunt Atossa he would not . '' `` Is she so terrible ? '' asked Anne absently . `` You 'll probably see what she 's like before we can get away , '' said Diana significantly . `` Father says she has a face like a hatchet -- it cuts the air . But her tongue is sharper still . '' Late as it was Aunt Atossa was cutting potato sets in the Wright kitchen . She wore a faded old wrapper , and her gray hair was decidedly untidy . Aunt Atossa did not like being `` caught in a kilter , '' so she went out of her way to be disagreeable . `` Oh , so you 're Anne Shirley ? '' she said , when Diana introduced Anne .
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