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My bed white and gold with curtings of pink and silver brocayd held up a top by a goold Qpid who seems always a smilin angillicly hon me, has I lay with my Ed on my piller hall sarounded with the finest Mechlin. I have a own man, a yuth under him, 2 groombs, and a fimmale for the House. I've 7 osses: in cors if I hunt this winter I must increase my ixtablishment.
"The Dining-room furniture is all HOAK, British Hoak; round igspanding table, like a trick in a Pantimime, iccommadating any number from 8 to 24 to which it is my wish to restrict my parties. Curtings crimsing damask, Chairs crimsing myrocky. Portricks of my favorite great men decorats the wall namely, the Duke of Wellington. There's four of his Grace.
"Well, if she don't mind, I'd like some old linen to wrap around the burns. You see, I am scalted pretty bad and it'll be a while 'fore I kin get to work again. But, of course, the children are right handy, an' ef we jest have a stove an' a bed we can scratch along somehow. Ella, she's more hifalutin. She'd like red plush sofys and lace curtings. But I say, 'Land, child!
"They come from a dressmaker as is in a small way," designating the scraps by a gesture. "I clean up for 'er an' she lets me 'ave 'em. I make 'em up into anythink I can pin-cushions an' bags an' curtings an' balls. Nobody'd think wot they run to sometimes. Now an' then I sell some of 'em. Wot I can't sell I give away." "Drunken Bet's biby plays with 'er ball all day," said Glad.
Marseilles quilt. Ruffles all round the piller. Chintz curtings, jest put up, o' purpose for the party, I'll lay ye a dollar. What a nice washbowl!" Here's a bran'-new brush and comb, and here's a scent-bottle. Come here, girls, and fix yourselves in the glass, and scent your pocket-handkerchers." And Mrs.
Marseilles quilt. Ruffles all round the piller. Chintz curtings, jest put up, o' purpose for the party, I'll lay ye a dollar. What a nice washbowl!" Here's a bran'-new brush and comb, and here's a scent-bottle. Come here, girls, and fix yourselves in the glass, and scent your pocket-handkerchers." And Mrs.
"It's a lot of boxes piled up higher and higher, and nailed down tight so that ye can walk on them, and when ye get away up high, there is another house right farninst ye well anyway, there was a lovely pianny in the parlow, and flowers in the windies, and two yalla burds that sing as if their hearts wud break, and the windies had a border of coloured glass all around them, and long white curtings full of holes, but they like them all the better o' that, for it shows they are owld and must ha' been good to ha' stood it so long.
Marseilles quilt. Ruffles all round the piller. Chintz curtings, jest put up, o' purpose for the party, I'll lay ye a dollar. What a nice washbowl!" Here's a bran'-new brush and comb, and here's a scent-bottle. Come here, girls, and fix yourselves in the glass, and scent your pocket-handkerchers." And Mrs.
I like to pertend it's all a great big house where I live, and there's carpets and lace curtings to the winders, and a real gold sofy with pink-velvet cushings! And when I come down and see one of the company's ottymobiles standin' by the curb waitin', I like to pertend it's mine, only I don't ride 'cause I've been ridin' so much I'd ruther walk! Don't you ever do that, Katie?"
Andy was warming up with his subject, and finding Ethelyn a good listener, he continued: "I want you to like her, and I b'lieve you orter, for if it hadn't been for her this room wouldn't of been fixed up as 'tis. Melinda coaxed mother to buy the carpet, and the curtings, and to put your bed in there.
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