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Updated: May 2, 2025
Heavy walnut presses, carved and black with age, stood against the walls, drinking-glasses and candlesticks sparkled on a dark bureau-top, there was a bright picture or two, and the sunlighted tinware of a house at the other side of the street threw a cluster of tiny rays like a bouquet of light in at the window.
Like one infinitely more accustomed to treading on Persian carpets than on painted floors she came forward into the room. "Hello, children!" she said casually, and began at once without further parleying to take down the motto that graced her own bureau-top. It was the era when almost everybody in the world had a motto over his bureau.
The black-eyed boy looked reproach as they clattered up the stairs to Ross's room, where the clean collar was produced and a small stock of ties. "You'd wear a necktie wouldn't you?" Ross asked, spreading them upon the bureau-top. "Yes. But make it fall carelessly over your shirt-front," advised the student of Hints and Helps. "Your collar is miles too big for me. Say!
Heavy walnut presses, carved and black with age, stood against the walls, drinking-glasses and candlesticks sparkled on a dark bureau-top, there was a bright picture or two, and the sunlighted tinware of a house at the other side of the street threw a cluster of tiny rays like a bouquet of light in at the window.
Selwyn," she had confided to the little doctor just a few days before. "She hasn't any nonsense about her, if she is an earl's daughter." "Earl's daughter," sniffed the little doctor, trying to slip a collar button into a refractory binding. "Dear me, now that's gone no, 'tisn't that's luck," as the button rolled off into a corner of the bureau-top where it was easily captured.
The blessedness of acknowledgment, when it comes, is the blessedness of owning and looking back together upon what has already been. Sylvie made a space for the white box upon a broad old bureau-top in her room.
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