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Updated: June 13, 2025
They were sitting in Miss Elizabeth's sitting-room, a perfect room to Katie Fleming's mind, and the only light came from the red embers of the wood-fire, now falling low. Miss Elizabeth was leaning back among the cushions of her father's great arm-chair, and Katie sat on a low chair opposite, with a book on her lap.
The landlady very politely divested Henrietta of her travelling clothes, made a soft resting place for her with cushions in an arm-chair, put a stool beneath her feet, and in less time than it took to draw a breath, totted up ten different kinds of dishes that she might choose from them the one she liked best. Perhaps she would like some leaf-cake?
A parlour door within a small entry stood open, and disclosed a child a dwarf a girl a something sitting on a little low old-fashioned arm-chair, which had a kind of little working bench before it. 'I can't get up, said the child, 'because my back's bad, and my legs are queer. But I'm the person of the house. 'Who else is at home? asked Charley Hexam, staring.
In a huge arm-chair, bolt upright, where they had placed him, sat Farmer Geer, holding in his sadly awkward hands the unconscious cause of all this agitation, namely, a poor, little, horrid, gasping, crying, writhing, old-faced, distressed-looking, red, wrinkled, ridiculous baby! between whose "screeches" Farmer Geer could be heard muttering, in a dazed, bewildered way, "Ivy's baby!
To this infirm state of her nerves may be attributed what she imagined, when, her eyes glancing a second time on the arm-chair, which stood in an obscure part of the closet, the countenance of her dead father appeared there. Emily stood fixed for a moment to the floor, after which she left the closet.
The clerk then counted them, and placing them in his portfolio took his leave. "Close the door when you go out," Caffie said, who was already seated in his arm-chair. "Do not be afraid." When the clerk was gone Caffie apologized for the interruption. "Let us continue our conversation, my dear sir.
She hesitated no longer, but shut the book with her farewell letter inside it, and put it back in its former place on the little table beside Philip's arm-chair.
To all of which Theodore made answer only by setting himself comfortably back in his arm-chair, pushing a fruit-basket toward his companion, and saying: "Have a pear, Jim?" Then the talk drifted on to pears and peaches, and divers other fruits, until Jim said: "Come, let's talk business." Theodore opened his eyes large, and looked inquiring.
She set herself to light the fire in the stove, while Agricola drew his mother's arm-chair to the hearth. "See what it is, my boy," said Dagobert to his son; "my head is so heavy that I cannot see clear." Agricola took the letter, which contained only a few lines, and read it before he looked at the signature. "At Sea, December 25th, 1831.
Another prognostic of evil to Dempster came at the beginning of March. For then little 'Mamsey' died died suddenly. The housemaid found her seated motionless in her arm-chair, her knitting fallen down, and the tortoise-shell cat reposing on it unreproved.
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