The east gable was a very different place from what it had been.... The velvet carpet with the pink roses and the pink silk curtains of Anne’s early visions had certainly never materialized; but her dreams had kept pace with her growth, and it is not probable she lamented them. The floor was covered with a pretty matting, and the curtains that softened the high window ... were of pale green art muslin. The walls, hung not with gold and silver brocade tapestry, but with a dainty apple-blossom paper, were adorned with a few good pictures given Anne by Mrs. Allan [the minister’s wife]. [Her teacher] Miss Stacy’s photograph occupied the place of honour, and Anne made a sentimental point of keeping fresh flowers on the bracket under it.... There was no “mahogany furniture,” but there was a white-painted book-case filled with books, a cushioned wicker rocker, a toilet-table befrilled with white muslin, a quaint, gilt-framed mirror with chubby pink cupids and purple grapes painted over its arched top, that used to hang in the spare room, and a low white bed. (282)

From L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, L. C. Page, 1908