Millie and Margaret Leith were very nice girls , and the boys were nice , too . Indeed , we liked every one in the family , except poor old Miss Emily Leith . We tried hard enough to like her , because she seemed to like Diana and me very much , and always wanted to sit with us and talk to us , when we would much rather have been somewhere else . We often felt a good deal of impatience at these times , but I am very glad to think now that we never showed it . In a way , we felt sorry for Miss Emily . She was Mr. Leith 's old-maid sister and she was not of much importance in the household . But , though we felt sorry for her , we could n't like her . She really was fussy and meddlesome ; she liked to poke a finger into every one 's pie , and she was not at all tactful . Then , too , she had a sarcastic tongue , and seemed to feel bitter towards all the young folks and their love affairs . Diana and I thought this was because she had never had a lover of her own . Somehow , it seemed impossible to think of lovers in connection with Miss Emily . She was short and stout and pudgy , with a face so round and fat and red that it seemed quite featureless ; and her hair was scanty and gray . She walked with a waddle , just like Mrs. Rachel Lynde , and she was always rather short of breath . It was hard to believe Miss Emily had ever been young ; yet old Mr. Murray , who lived next door to the Leiths , not only expected us to believe it , but assured us that she had been very pretty . `` THAT , at least , is impossible , '' said Diana to me . And then , one day , Miss Emily died . I 'm afraid no one was very sorry . It seems to me a most dreadful thing to go out of the world and leave not one person behind to be sorry because you have gone . Miss Emily was dead and buried before Diana and I heard of it at all . The first I knew of it was when I came home from Orchard Slope one day and found a queer , shabby little black horsehair trunk , all studded with brass nails , on the floor of my room at Green Gables .
Marilla told me that Jack Leith had brought it over , and said that it had belonged to Miss Emily and that , when she was dying , she asked them to send it XXXXX me .
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