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Updated: June 29, 2025
Much relieved that the storm-center had passed over him, Mr. Wrenn sat on the front edge of a cane-seated chair, with the magazines between his hands, and his hands pressed between his forward-cocked knees. Always, in the hundreds of times he went over the scene in that room afterward, he remembered how cool and smooth the magazine covers felt to the palms of his flattened hands.
"Tell me your trouble, then," he said, dropping into the cane-seated chair she had brought out of the cabin and placed between the flat stone at the doorstep and the well-brink, on which the yellow rooster stood spreading his wings.
She still had a laughing expression when they were seated in Mrs. Sturtevant's flower-scented drawing-room, a handsome room, thanks to the decorator, who was young and enthusiastic. Margaret had duly considered the colour scheme in her choice of a gown. The furniture was upholstered with a wisteria pattern, except a few chairs which were cane-seated, with silvered wood.
"Don't dwell on Sister Barsett an' her foolish folks no more; I wouldn't, if I was you." They went into the front room, which was dim with the twilight of the half-closed blinds and two great syringa bushes that grew against them. Sarah Ellen put down her bundle and bestowed herself in the large, cane-seated rocking-chair. Mrs.
You see into many houses as you pass along, and very cool and clean they look. There are marble floors, cane-seated chairs and lounges, thin lace curtains, and glimpses of courts in the center of each building, often with green plants or gaudy flowers growing in them between the parlor and the kitchen. You find much the same plan at your hotel.
A cane-seated chair, overturned near the table, had been left untouched, and the body was still lying in the position in which the Hennessey girl had discovered it. A strange chill something unlike any atmospherical sharpness, a chill that seemed to exhale from the thin, pinched nostrils permeated the apartment.
In response to his companion's remark he lazily turned his sunburned face toward the cane-seated rocker and inquired: "What on airth are you doin' with them boots?" Captain Eri tied a knot with his fingers and teeth and then held the boots out at arm's length. "Why, Perez," he said, "I'm averagin' up, same as I told you.
"Well, what do you think?" said Trina. She and McTeague stood in a tiny room at the back of the flat and on its very top floor. The room was whitewashed. It contained a bed, three cane-seated chairs, and a wooden washstand with its washbowl and pitcher.
A shadeless electric lamp hung from the ceiling. Excepting the cane-seated chair in which he had been deposited and a certain amount of nondescript lumber, the attic was unfurnished. Dan rapidly considered what his father would have done in the circumstances. "Make sure that the door is locked," he muttered. He tried it, and it was locked beyond any shadow of doubt. "The window."
"We haven't been in it yet," answered Grace. "That is, we went only as far as the door." "Oh, then you must see it at once," said Mrs. Elwood briskly. "I have had it repapered. There is a new rug on the floor, too, and I have put a new Morris chair in and taken out one of the cane-seated chairs." "No wonder the Anarchist refuses to vacate," muttered Elfreda.
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