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Updated: May 10, 2025
My country! ... My honor! ... My courage and steadfastness! Mockery!" The next morning Warburton was shown into a neat six-by-eight, just off the carriage-room. There was a cot, running water and a wash- stand, and a boot-blacking apparatus. For appearance's sake, Mr. James had purchased a cheap trunk. Everything inside was new, too.
The box-stalls were small display-rooms, hung with tapestries and lighted with candles in old French sconces. The great carriage-room became a refectory, with Jacobean and old monastery chairs, and the vast loft overhead, reached by a narrow staircase that clung to the wall, was railed on its exposed side, waxed as to floor, hung with lanterns, and became a ballroom.
"Some of 'em was even more crazy than that sounds." The inside of the house having been thus thoroughly inspected they explored the yard and the outbuildings. The barn was a large one, with stalls for two horses and a cow and a carriage-room with the remnants of an old-fashioned carryall in it. "This is about the way it used to be in Cap'n Abner's day," said Captain Obed.
To the right and left of the main entrance were store-rooms, servants' rooms, and carriage-room, and opposite the latter, towards the rear, the broad stairway that, turning upon itself, led to the living-rooms on the upper floor the broad salon at the head of the stairs being utilized as a dining-room on state occasions, and its northward end as the parlor.
Those great box-stalls, with quilts hung before them, would make better bedrooms than the one she had occupied for forty years, and there was a tight carriage-room. The harness-room, with its chimney and shelves, would make a kitchen of her dreams. The great middle space would make a parlor, by-and- by, fit for a palace. Upstairs there was as much room as down.
And where's the fish to come from for seven people? And what about maids and valets? Does he count up the likes of them? He's not Mr. Ingram if he does. Not he! Nor his father before him. And what's Frodsham going to do about carriage-room for seven and the servants as well and the luggage, and all? Dogs, very likely, dogs and cats, and parrots. Who knows?
I say we'd better begin hiding them right away. Let's see if we can make a place. Get away, Trip." He was speaking to Pony's dog, that always came out into the barn with him and stayed below in the carriage-room, whining and yelping till they helped him up the ladder into the loft. Then he always lay in one corner, with his tongue out, and looking at them as if he knew what they were saying.
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