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The women followed him into the dining-room, and stared at the dining- room in silence. "There's a bedroom behind," he said, as they came out, and he displayed the bedroom behind. "That's the kitchen." He pointed to the adjoining door. "The drawing-room's larger," he said. "It includes the width of the hall." They climbed the narrow stairs after him wearily.
The dining-room and hall revealed theirs openly, but the drawing-room's was match-boarded because the facts of life must be concealed from ladies? Drawing-room, dining-room, and hall how petty the names sounded! Here were simply three rooms where children could play and friends shelter from the rain. Yes, and they were beautiful.
The dining-room and hall revealed theirs openly, but the drawing-room's was match-boarded because the facts of life must be concealed from ladies? Drawing-room, dining-room, and hall how petty the names sounded! Here were simply three rooms where children could play and friends shelter from the rain. Yes, and they were beautiful.
Tapestry weaving now entered the region of fancy-work for the drawing-room's idle hour, and we see even the king himself, lounging idly among his favourite companions, working at a tiny loom, his latest pretty toy. Compare this trifling with the attitude of Henri IV and Louis XIV toward tapestry weaving, and we have the situation in a nutshell.
The town is small and not superfluously clean, but, of course, the respectable houses are not a part of the town. Ours is one which the Grand Duchess Helena had, not at all grand, but extremely comfortable and cheerful, with a splendid sea view in front, and pleasant green, hills and trees behind. The drawing-room's four windows all look to the sea, and I am never tired of looking out of them.
For instance, I find that essential beauty I spoke of in Mrs Olliver's face." "Ah . . . so do I; of a rare quality." "Well then, dear stupid, allow me to find it in yours also!" "One to you," he admitted, smiling. "But now . . . I am in your hands till tiffin. What are you going to do with me? Read? Sing? The drawing-room's empty; and I haven't heard you since Kajiar."
And there's only one way of setting it right. As soon as Lou can be dressed and got down, and when the drawing-room's finished, I want her to ask all our friends here to five o'clock tea, just to let them see with their own eyes 'Mrs. Higgins! 'Of course there'll be no expense for you, Mrs. Mumford not a farthing.
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