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He felt all at once terribly frightened, and at last, slipping down the tall bed-steps, he stole on his bare feet to Cynthia's door and crept in beside her. After this, dim years went by when he did not see his father, and the great closed rooms on the north side of the house were as silent as if a corpse lay there awaiting burial.
And the old people drank their eggnog and watched the Virginia reel, and, when they found her gone, shut her out forever. Now, as he sat on the bed-steps, it seemed to him that he had come home for the first time in his life. All this was his own by right, the queer old house, his mother's room, and beyond the sloping windows, the meadows with their annual yield of grain.
There are ever so many fine old walnut stools and the lower stools used for bed-steps to be bought in London shops that make a specialty of old English furniture, and reproductions of them may be bought in the better American shops. I often wonder why we do not see more bedside stools. They are so convenient, even though the bed be only moderately high from the floor.
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