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Littlejohn could make nothing of it, nor indeed could the artists' colourman, who had been used to pictures all his life. No wonder, for it was the first Rossetti that had ever been seen in Coalchester. And it was the same at the little paperhanger's shop where Theophilus had ordered some pieces of Morris wall-paper for his room.

"Law! what a taste, to be sure!" had exclaimed the paperhanger's wife as they opened the parcel. "How any one dare live with such patterns is beyond me." The paperhanger's wife verbed better than she knew. Few are those indeed who dare live with beauty. When the paper was hung in Theophil's room, so great was the sensation in the household that even old Mr.

She did not mend rapidly as a cook, but Pete ate of all that his faultless teeth could grind through, and laid the blame on his appetite when his digestion failed. She strove by other industries to keep alive a sense of her duty as a wife. Buying rolls of paper at the paperhanger's, she set about papering every closet in the house. The patterns did not join and the paste did not adhere.

You wouldn't, Jimmie. You ain't that kind of fellow. Tell me you wouldn't, Jimmie." He turned away to dive down into the barrel. "Naw," he said, "I wouldn't." The sun had receded, leaving a sudden sullen gray, the little square room, littered with an upheaval of excelsior, sheet-shrouded furniture, and the paperhanger's paraphernalia and inimitable smells, darkening and seeming to chill.

Vickerton, the postmistress's son, get to a paperhanger's and order him and his men to come out in shoals to Symford the next morning at daybreak, making the paperhanger vow, who had never seen them, that the cottages should be done by nightfall.

The next morning we went to a paperhanger's shop and asked to see the very newest and most artistic designs in stock.

You can 'ave a pair of paperhanger's tressels and boards for that matter. 'I have a lot of sketches and things at home that I couldn't very well bring here, said Owen. Misery argued about it for a long time, insisting that the drawings should be made either on the 'job' or at the paint-shop down at the yard.