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Do him more good than joining a 'don't worry club. Well, come on up to the house and ease his mind." So we done it, and Ebenezer acted even more surprised than Peter. I can't tell you anything about that house, nor the fixings in it; it beat me a mile that house did. We had a room somewheres up on the hurricane deck, with brass bunks and plush carpets and crocheted curtains and electric lights.
Didn't expect you quite so soon, I expect." Maraton looked around the little sitting-room. It was furnished with a carpet of bright green thrown over a foundation of linoleum, a suite of stamped magenta plush, an overmantel, gilt cornices over the windows, a piano, a table covered with a gaudy tablecloth. On the walls were hung some oleographs.
They powdered with the greatest propriety, and by two o'clock each day were silk-stockinged and pumped in full-dress Jawleyford livery; sky-blue coats with massive silver aiguillettes, and broad silver seams down the front and round their waistcoat-pocket flaps; silver garters at their crimson plush breeches' knees: and thus attired, they were ready to turn out with the butler to receive visitors, and conduct them back to their carriages.
"I should very much like to see it," said the Plush Bear. There were other toys in the closet, and they talked and had a good time together that night when Arthur and Nettie were fast asleep. And then began a happy life for the Plush Bear.
"He's the best toy I ever saw!" "Don't squeeze the Bear so hard, Arthur," said a lady who was with the fat boy. "You may break the toy before I have paid for him." "The Plush Bear is strong and well-made, Mrs. Rowe," said Mr. Mugg. "He is one of the newest of the Christmas toys, and I only put him in the show window this morning."
The Prophet blinked with amazement, like a martyr who suddenly finds himself snatched from the rack and laid upon a plush divan with a satin cushion under his head. "I'm going to trust you," Lady Enid went on, emphasising the two pronouns. "Many thanks," said the Prophet, unoriginally. She was sitting on a square piece of furniture which the Marquis of Glome called an "Aberdeen lean-to."
The young man addressed as mister made several incoherent remarks of a technical nature, and with a glance in my direction withdrew. "Sit down," said Mr. Carville, shutting the door. "You'll excuse me for a minute?" I sat down on a red plush settee while my host settled into a wicker easy chair by a small desk. The room by our computation would be small, yet I perceived that Mr.
This person, whose age might be about forty, was attired in a brown double-breasted frieze coat, with very wide skirts, and a very narrow collar; a light drugget waistcoat, with pockets reaching to the knees; black plush breeches; grey worsted hose; and shoes with round toes, wooden heels, and high quarters, fastened by small silver buckles.
This picture had for name, "Faith," and was bordered with a red plush mat and a frame of imitation beaten brass. A door hung with chenille portieres a bargain at two dollars and a half admitted one to the bedroom. The bedroom could boast a carpet, three-ply ingrain, the design being bunches of red and green flowers in yellow baskets on a white ground.
'There's a sportsman, said he, 'asleep in the next room. 'What sort of sportsman? two of them asked with one voice. 'A gentleman. 'Ah! 'Let them make a row, said the man with the plush collar, waving his arms; 'what do I care, so long as they don't touch me? They've turned me into a stoker.... 'A stoker! a stoker! the others put in gleefully.