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Presently I saw a low gray house standing on a grassy bank close to the / road. The door was at the side, facing us, and a tangle of snowberry / bushes and cinnamon roses grew to the level of the window-sills. On / the doorstep stood a bent-shouldered, little old woman; there was an / air of welcome and of unmistakable dignity about her.
"She sees us coming," exclaimed Mrs. Todd in an excited whisper. / "There, I told her I might be over this way again if the weather held / good, and if I came I 'd bring you. She said right off she 'd take / great pleasure in havin' a visit from you; I was surprised, she's / usually so retirin'."