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She declined emphatically and with haste, and hurried into the hall. He opened the front door for her, and they stood together for a moment on the dustless door-mat, mathematically laid upon verandah boards as white as new-peeled almonds. "What a lovely garden!" remarked Rose, as she stepped down to it.
The trail itself, dustless and packed hard, revealed nothing, but some five hundred yards beyond the ravine he discovered what he sought here two wagons had turned sharply to the left, their wheels cutting deeply enough into the prairie sod to show them heavily laden.
The sort that have detached cushions in soft leather are very nice and practically dustless. The same is true of easy chairs so provided. A handsome weathered-oak davenport with cushions of this kind will be found marked somewhere about $65, while half that price pays for an easy chair of the same style. The cushions are filled with felt.
Not a cloud was to be seen in that flaming sky, and through that dustless atmosphere the eye could see the horizon a horizon three times as distant as the one to which we are accustomed with a distinctness and clarity impossible in our Terra's dust-filled air.
"And you must not imagine this dustless, spotless, sweet apartment as anything but beautiful.
The small door, the tiny windows, of every house were rigorously closed. The whole place had a wind-swept air despite the heavy foliage. Even the roads, and notably the broad "Place," had been swept clean and dustless. And in the middle of the "Place," between the fountain and the church steps, a man lay dead upon his face.
Women were good housekeepers fitly years ago, but she was conspicuous among the best. To see her spotless cuffs and snowy kirtle one would scarce credit how hard she laboured. It was only the well ordered house and the dustless rooms which proclaimed her constant industry.
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