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So he found himself shortly in the carriage-house, from which everything on wheels had been run outside into the farmyard. At one side of the great square room sat three men, each holding a queer wooden object, upon which he sawed busily without appearing to cut anything. And Buster soon learned that the bewitching sound came from the sawing.
It was Natalie who gave him the suggestion. "Why don't you turn your carriage-house into a studio, and give a studio warming, Roddie? It would be fun fixing it up. And you might make it fancy dress." Before long, of course, he had accepted the idea as of his own originating, and was hard at work. Rodney's house had been his father's.
Standing upon a bench, a little short man was exciting transports of indignation by describing the magnificence of the Baron de Thaller's residence, where he had once had some dealings. He had counted five carriages in the carriage-house, fifteen horses in the stables, and Heaven knows how many servants.
His mistress was biting her lip from mortification and ill-concealed rage. "I will make a kennel in the corner of the carriage-house, where he can be chained up, and yet have room to stretch himself; and the young miss can feed him, and see him as often as she likes, till matters are better settled." "Very well. Attend to it at once. I hope Miss Orme is satisfied?"
She shrieked again, and they heard the rush of her footfalls across the carriage-house floor. Wild words came from the outer air, and the kitchen door slammed violently. It was all over. She had gone to "tell." Penrod and Sam plunged down the stairs and out of the stable. They climbed the back fence and fled up the alley.
It wouldn't seem like he is really ours if we couldn't take him with us." After some grumbling the man consented, and pocketed the four dollars, first asking very particularly the exact spot in the barn where they expected to hide their huge pet. Unc' Henry, coming up from the carriage-house through the twilight, thought he saw some one stealing along by the clump of cedars by the spring-house.
Millicent put down the scissors and paper, and looked at Anne with startled eyes, and then she began to cry. Rose came running out from the carriage-house. "What is the matter, dear?" and she kneeled down beside her little sister. But Millicent sobbed on. "Tell me, Anne," and she turned toward her little visitor.
At this moment a brown hound ran into the stable through the alley door, wagged a greeting to Penrod, and fraternized with Duke. The fat-faced boy appeared upon the threshold and gazed coldly about the little company in the carriage-house, whereupon the coloured brethren, ceasing from merriment, were instantly impassive, and Sam Williams moved a little nearer the door leading into the yard.
From the Paris-built drag carrying eight passengers besides my two men, down to the pony cart, everything was of the best. All was in good taste and expense had not been considered. My combination carriage-house and stable was architecturally a very handsome building, and in its interior every detail, useful and ornamental, had received careful attention.
Inside this inclosure, and not far from the dwelling, were the quarters for the house-servants, the carriage-house and private stable, the smoke-house and the kitchen, which lay detached from the main building, according to the custom prevailing in the South. Our garden could boast of fig and orange trees, and other tropical productions. Pinks and roses we possessed in abundance.
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