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Let me show you my credentials." From her muff she drew a packet, opened it, and laid the contents on the bedspread under his eyes. Then she walked to the window and stood there with her back turned looking out at the falling snow. After a few minutes he called her. She went back to the bedside, replaced the packet in her muff, and stood waiting in silence.
On the dressing-table is another mirror, an oval one, framed with pink roses, each of which has an electric light hidden in its heart; and the bedspread is of pink and silver brocade to match the hangings, with a large, hard roll like an ossified bolster, at the top. I believe it's that bed more than anything else, which makes me feel that it's always Sunday in my room at Mrs. Ess Kay's.
Betty flushed and laughed. "Surprised or anything like that," she returned. "But, you see, I learned to talk and read just as you do English. And then papa being English, why I had both languages. It was very easy." "Patience and perseverance will make this easy." "And I can't knit a stocking nor make a shirt. And I haven't pieced a bedspread nor worked a sampler.
For every gas jet in the room was a-blazin' high. Sez he, "I am posin' for a statute, Samantha." And come to look closter, I see he had took off the blanket and bedspread and had swathed 'em round his form some like a toga. And I see it wuz them that he wuz apostrofizin' and orderin' to lay down in folds and fall graceful.
Others are more like those busy women who, having the generous intention of making a handsome present to their pastor, at as little expense as may be, send to all their neighbors and acquaintances for scraps of various materials, out of which the imposing "bedspread" or counterpane is to be elaborated.
"Yes, do," his wife answered sympathetically. "And I say, Bobbie, I'm going to work Captain Askew a bedspread. He's an awfully useful little man." One form of pleasantry the Guthrie Brimstons greatly affected was nicknaming.
Joshua! carry the bedspread round and allow the ladies to examine it for themselves. It is excessively hurtful to our feelings when purchasers imply that deception has been practised in order to induce them to purchase our goods. Show the ladies the spread! Pure cotton, ladies. Fast colours. Design by Alma Tadema, in his happiest mood.
She could hardly expect it. Yet as she continued to meet his gaze with all the seriousness the moment demanded, she beheld those burning orbs lose some of their demand and the fingers, which had lain inert upon the bedspread, flutter gently and move as if to draw attention to his wife and the three beautiful children clustered at the foot-board.
Bedspread of rose dotted swiss, with wide ruffle. A Large Box For waists, etc. Covered in rose and gray cretonne. A Desk To correspond with painted furniture; a gray blotter and rose colored pen. Two Chairs One of natural wicker with cushions of rose sateen, and one of wood to correspond with painted furniture, caned seat.
Clarissa smiled and settled herself down comfortably on the silken bedspread. "Oh, I know I'm not to be always about, because you're just married; but could you see to it that I have my meals regularly?" "Why, you poor darling! Don't you always?" "Not when mother's away on these cures. The servants don't always obey me: you see I'm so little for my age.