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'That is true, and as long as we have pretty curtains and blinds there is no need to furnish completely at once; besides, we have nearly two months to quarter-day, and we can save a few pounds if we are very economical, agreed Amy.
While I listened to the gladsome music, my glance strayed to Milly, but she was almost hidden by the curtains of the tepee; and then to Ned, who sat with his face turned partly away from us.
There were several vases of flowers in the windows, whose curtains only permitted a soft, mysterious light to penetrate the room. The perfume from the flowers, the sort of obscurity, the solitude in which I found her, overcame me for a moment; I was obliged to pause in order to quiet the beating of my heart.
I arose also and began to pace up and down the room taking care that each turn would bring me nearer to the heavy curtains which hung about one of the great windows. The prince repeated his question, this time in a louder and angrier tone than before, and when I made no reply was about to leave the room; but I made a sign that compelled him to pause.
The comfortable chairs and sofas and the ever useful tables do the rest. So many people ask me: How shall I furnish my living-room? What paper shall I use on the walls? What woodwork and curtains and rugs? One woman asked me what books she should buy! Your living-room should grow out of the needs of your daily life. There could be no two living-rooms exactly alike in scheme if they were lived in.
Why shouldn't you feel as if you belonged where people are graceful and courteous?" "On me soul!" said Freckles, "you are kind to be thinking it. You are doubly kind to be saying it." The curtains parted and a woman came toward them. Her silks and laces trailed across the polished floors. The lights gleamed on her neck and arms, and flashed from rare jewels.
Jean had drawn the cretonne curtains, but through their chinks streaks of bluish, shadowy light presaged the coming day. From his lair the boy looked out at these ghostly fingers of the morning, then his eyes travelled round the dark room until at last they rested upon his clothes lying, as he had thrown them, on the floor.
This bed was so handsome and soft that I felt inclined to make it my apologies for having slept in it. As I was about to get up I saw a kindly, venerable face looking through the half-drawn curtains and smiling. It was the Chevalier Hubert de Mauprat. He inquired anxiously about the state of my health.
There are two in one room, and the windows are like doors, with lace curtains; but what is queerest of all, the chairs and sofas are covered with real silk, just like that funny, gored gown of grandma's up in the oak chest. Dear me! I wonder if I'll ever live in such a place as Aikenside?" "No, no, Maddy, no.
She was wondering to find herself in such an unforeseen position as that of a night guest in the mysterious Hidden House wondering whether this was the guest chamber in which the ghost appeared to the officer and these were the very curtains that the pale lady drew at night.
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