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The knobs would replace certain reproductions on some of our antique furniture. We knew what such things cost at the shops and how hard they were to find. And just then Elizabeth came upon a plated-silver buckle, and then upon another a pair of them old shoe or garter buckles, we could not be sure which. Why, our attic was a regular treasure island!
It ends in an alcove for a pagoda of painted porcelain which the Prince Regent peace be to his ashes! presented to my great-grandfather. There are many twisting paths, and sudden aspects, and devious, fantastic arbours. Are you fond of horses? In my stables of pine-wood and plated-silver seventy are installed. Not all of them together could vie in power with one of the meanest of my motor-cars."
But I refrained. I feared the fate of a flatterer. I had witnessed her delight at the crafty and discreet words of Bud and Jacks. No! Miss Hinkle was not one to be beguiled by the plated-silver tongue of a flatterer. So I joined the ranks of the candid and honest. At once I became mendacious and didactic.
It was hard to leave the kindly Herbert Grays of the flat, but Una made the break and arranged all her silver toilet-articles which consisted of a plated-silver hair-brush, a German-silver nail-file, and a good, plain, honest rubber comb on the bureau in Mrs. Lawrence's room. With the shyness of a girl on her first night in boarding-school, Una stuck to Mrs.
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