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Iredale had already adjusted himself into a comfortable chintz-covered arm-chair when Grey arrived upon the scene. A great briar pipe hung from the corner of his strong, decided mouth, and he was smoking thoughtfully. Grey moved briskly to another chair and flung himself into its depths with little regard for its age. Nor did he attempt to smoke.
She glanced at rugs and curtains and chintz-covered chair; at the bowls of brilliantly colored leaves of the top of book-shelves and tables, and sniffed the pungent winter pinks, step-sisters to the proud chrysanthemums in the hall, and again she nodded her head. "What a happy creature you ought to be, Mary Cary! You've got so much; the chance to work, a dear home " "Dreaming!
"Sit down, Letty dear, and tell me what is the matter," said Mary, placing her friend in a chintz-covered straw chair, and seating herself beside her. Letty burst into tears, and sat sobbing. "Come, dear, tell me all about it," insisted Mary. "If you don't make haste, they will be calling me." Letty could not speak.
Fowler came in, and pushing a chintz-covered chair close to the desk, sank into it and laid her small nervous hand on the arm of her daughter-in-law. She was wearing a velvet bonnet, with strings, and a street gown of black broadcloth, which fitted her like a glove and accentuated, after the fashion of the 'nineties, her small, compact waist and the deep substantial curves of her bosom and hips.
They greeted one another with coolness but affection, the maid was sent out of the room, and they settled down in chintz-covered easy-chairs by the window for the usual good long talk. Muriel was a pretty girl, less graceful than Cicely, but with her big brown eyes and masses of dark hair, a foil to her friend's fair beauty.
He led the way to the first floor, and opened a door in a corner of the pillared gallery. "Oh, jolly!" cried Helena. For they entered a lofty room, with white Georgian panelling, a few pretty old cabinets and chairs, a chintz-covered sofa, a stand of stuffed humming-birds, a picture or two, a blue Persian carpet, and a large book-case full of books. "My books!" cried Helena in amazement.
Old Jolyon had a natural antipathy to these methodical creatures, whose heads and colour reminded him of elephants; who nibbled such quantities of holes in nice green leaves; and smelled, as he thought, horrid. He sat down on a chintz-covered windowseat whence he could see the drive, and get what air there was; and the dog Balthasar who appreciated chintz on hot days, jumped up beside him.
The look on her face might well stay the reproaches on Marg's lips she almost reeled back as the deep, true eyes met hers. All the smothered sisterliness came to the surface for an instant as she trembled and drew near to the two in the old chintz-covered rocker. "See! my baby, Marg. She is lil' Ann." "Ann what?" whispered Marg. "Just lil' Ann for Miss Lois Ann."
As the maid announced his name with a pronunciation all her own, a pretty girl sprang up from a chintz-covered window seat, in a drawing-room which in an instant took Carleton across the sea to his native land. The girl had been sitting on one foot, and as she jumped up quickly she stumbled a little, laughing. "Oh, Dick, you nice thing!" she exclaimed. "I am glad to see you. But my foot's asleep.
We went arm in arm into our little sitting-room, and I took off the fur's for her and sat down upon the chintz-covered sofa by the fire. She had ordered tea, and came and sat by me. I don't know what I had expected, but of all things I had certainly not expected this sudden abolition of our distances. "I want to know all about America," she repeated, with her eyes scrutinising me.
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