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There was a cushion with a pretty fluted cover, that Katy had never seen before, and several other things were scattered about, which gave the room quite a different air. All the house was neat, but somehow Aunt Izzie's rooms never were pretty. Children's eyes are quick to perceive such things, and Katy saw at once that the Blue-room had never looked like this.
'It will do all the good in the world to Grancey, said Mrs. Lespel. She sat in her little blue-room, with gentlemen congregating at the open window. Presently Grancey Lespel rounded a projection of the house where the drawing-room stood out: 'The maddest folly ever talked! he delivered himself in wrath. 'The Whigs dead? You may as well say I'm dead.
She saw the wistful look in Elsie's face at once, and took special pains to be sweet and tender to her. This preference made Katy jealous. She couldn't bear to share her cousin with anybody. When the last evening came, and they went up after tea to the Blue-room, Cousin Helen was opening a box which had just come by Express. "It is a Good-by Box," she said.
I've just as much as I can possibly attend to till then." "Just tell us what's going to happen, and we will," cried the children. "Your Cousin Helen is coming to visit us," said Miss Izzie, curtly, and disappeared into the Blue-room. This was news indeed. Katy and Clover ran down stairs in great excitement, and after consulting a little, retired to the Loft to talk it over in peace and quiet.
She is like a stage duchess. She always seems to me to be in a perpetual state of being about to desire the butler to instruct the head footman to serve lunch in the blue-room overlooking the west terrace. She exudes dignity.
'Give me an hour, Sir Lukin replied, and went straight to his wife's blue-room. Diana was roused from a meditation on a letter she held, by the entrance of Emma in her bed-chamber, to whom she said: 'I have here the very craziest bit of writing! but what is disturbing you, dear? Emma sat beside her, panting and composing her lips to speak. 'Do you, love me?
It's how I can ever waste you on the 'nice people. Oh, I'm spoiled for cut-glass-and-velvet afternoons. Eternal spiritual agony over blue-room taps is too high a price even for four-poster beds. I want to be driving! hiking! living!" That afternoon, after having agreed that Mr. Johnny Martin was a bore, Mr. and Mrs. Gilson decided to run out to the house of Mr. Johnny Martin.
Already her mind was busy with arrangements for the baby's comfort and making plans for her future the blue-room looking into the garden for the nursery, and the blacksmith's eldest daughter for a nurse-maid, and some little white frocks and pinafores made; and what should she be called? Some simple name would do. Mary, perhaps. And then suddenly Mrs Vallance checked herself.
"What are you stopping for?" called Aunt Izzie, from the dining-room. "Do be careful, Katy, I really think Bridget had better take it." "Oh no, no!" protested Katy, "I'm most up already." And she sped up stairs as fast as she could go. Luckless speed! She had just reached the door of the Blue-room, when she tripped upon her boot-lace, which, as usual, was dangling, made a misstep, and stumbled.
The two dear ones showed themselves heart in heart together once more; each looked the happier for it. Dartrey was among their dinner-guests, and Nataly took him to her little blue-room before she went to bed. He did not speak of their conversation to Victor, but counselled him to keep her from excitement. 'My dear fellow, if you had seen her with Mrs.