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Updated: June 7, 2025
You see we have matting on the floor, with a few rugs; as our landlord would not do anything to the walls, we had a frieze made of this big-flowered paper which cost next to nothing, and relieves the whiteness; the white iron beds and the dressing-tables were not expensive, nor the draperies, which are in our line, you know." While she talked Norah opened the door into the next room.
"What's the matter, Phronsie?" at last she asked. For the first time in her life Phronsie seemed unable to answer Polly, and she stood quite still, her gaze fastened on the big-flowered muslin curtain that swung back and forth in the breeze that came through the open window. "Now, Phronsie," said Polly very decidedly, and going up to her, "you must tell me what the matter is."
The wounded soldier sprang from his couch; the nun came nearer, with a quick light in her eye; Leslie Goldthwaite, in her mob cap, quilted petticoat, big-flowered calico train, and high-heeled shoes; two or three supernumeraries, in Rebel gray, with bayonets, coming on in "Barbara Frietchie"; and Sir Charles, bouncing out from somewhere behind, to the great hazard of the frame of lights, huddled together upon the stage and consulted.
The lovely clubhouse as they came into it was gay with big-flowered curtains and warm with its roaring fires. As they crossed the room together, they attracted much attention. There was about them a fine air of exaltation . "Young blood, young blood," said an old gentleman in a corner. "Gad, I envy him. Look at her eyes !" But there was more than her eyes to look at.
Even when he was informed that he must be the Chinese Giant and stand upon a coal-oil box for added height, arrayed in one of the big-flowered calico curtains which Annie Pilgreen said she could bring, he was apathetic. He would be required to swing his head slowly from side to side when wound up very well, it looked easy enough.
Not a soul has been in for the last two days, and usually I have callers from morning till night. This is such a good dropping-in place, you know. So central that I see and hear everything." She ushered Lloyd into a room, gay with big-flowered chintz curtains, and quaint with old-fashioned carved furniture.
The wounded soldier sprang from his couch; the nun came nearer, with a quick light in her eye; Leslie Goldthwaite, in her mob cap, quilted petticoat, big-flowered calico train, and high-heeled shoes; two or three supernumeraries, in Rebel gray, with bayonets, coming on in "Barbara Frietchie;" and Sir Charles, bouncing out from somewhere behind, to the great hazard of the frame of lights, huddled together upon the stage and consulted.
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