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Updated: June 24, 2025
Having sent her with the small burden, which was apparently all her luggage, to the little room formerly a box-closet where she was to sleep, the Misses Leaf or as facetious neighbors called them, the Miss Leaves took serious counsel together over their tea. Tea itself suggested the first difficulty. They were always in the habit of taking that meal, and indeed every other, in the kitchen.
These were small enough; at least they would have seemed so to other eyes than Elizabeth's; for, until the school-room and box-closet above had been kindly added by the landlord, who would have done any thing to show his respect for the Misses Leaf, it had been merely a six-roomed cottage parlor kitchen, back kitchen, and three upper chambers.
"The box-closet! Now, really, I can't stand " "She is to sleep in the box-closet; where else could she sleep?" said Hilary, resolutely, though inly quaking a little; for somehow, the merry, handsome, rather exacting lad bad acquired considerable influence in this household of women.
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