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Get grandfather to have some of the floors stained. I think rugs, and English druggets, put down with brass-headed nails, in the middle, are delightful. Especially for a country house." "It seems, then, we are going?" Nobody had even raised a question of that. Nobody raised a question when Mr. Holabird came in. He himself raised none.
If I were a young man myself I might But women are all the same. I should be a happier man if I had never trusted one. If " The face darkened; a heavy scowl lined his brows as he paced up and down. Christabel came back presently with hammer and some brass-headed stays in her hand. "Don't utterly destroy the frame," Littimer said, resignedly.
He held a pair of brass-headed hearth tongs above his head, waving them wildly at the unresponsive bidders. "Will you make it ten?" he yelled at me as the last comer. "Ten," I answered, a need for fire tongs, that blistering July day, suddenly overcoming me. "And sold for ten cents to the boy in the gate," shouted the auctioneer. "Will somebody throw in the fireplace to go with them!"
A carriage was sent for him, and he was installed in the southern chamber above the drawing-room, and everything done to alleviate his pain that the kindest forethought could suggest. He lingered here some two months, and then passed away, and was buried in the family burying-ground. His only baggage at the time of his arrival was an old hair-covered trunk nailed round with brass-headed nails.
Pedestrians began to appear; handsomely dressed ladies were more frequently encountered; the men had otter skin collars to their coats; peasant waggoners, with their grate-like sledges stuck over with brass-headed nails, became rarer; whilst on the other hand, more and more drivers in red velvet caps, lacquered sledges and bear-skin coats began to appear, and carriages with rich hammer-cloths flew swiftly through the streets, their wheels scrunching the snow.
He looked down at the floor as if to find evidence of magic there, but the pattern of the turkey carpet was intact, the big brass-headed nails were in the corners and along the fireplace. "'There are more things in Heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy," Sartoris quoted. "As a rule your soldier is a dull man and not gifted with much imagination.
"The only good place would be between 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' and 'The Stag at Bay." "What! In the dining-room?" "Certainly." "Well, I shouldn't," said Eliza. "It's a sacred subject, and we use the drawing-room on Sundays. That's the place." "I think I can trust my own taste," I said. I got a brass-headed nail and a hammer, and began.
The chairs were made of mahogany and satinwood, some carved, some inlaid, and some painted. The splat never ran into the seat, but was supported on a cross rail running from side to side a few inches above the seat. The material used for upholstery was nailed over the frame with brass-headed tacks.
At evening he sits in his door, a clever picture of a by-gone age, on a venerable old sofa, supported on legs tapering into feet of lion's paws, and carved in mahogany, all tacked over with brass-headed nails.
Lord Littimer, I am going to get four brass-headed stays and drive them through some of the open ornamental work into the panel so as to make the picture quite secure. It is an iron frame, I suppose." "Wrought-iron, gilt," said Littimer. "Yes, one could easily drive four brass-headed stays through the open work and make the thing safe. I'll have it seen to."
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