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And her mind drifted to the happier thought of what a brilliant marriage on her part would mean to the little girls who were so busily cleaning an eight-room house in a little Jersey suburb. Josephine and Julia should come to visit her, they should have little frocks that would befit the pretty nieces of Mrs.
That's what I call lonesome, in an eight-room flat." George and Nettie said, "It's doing you good, Father, being out in the air so much." His eyes were brighter, his figure straighter, his colour better. It was that day he had held forth so eloquently on the emigration question. He had to read a lot papers and magazines and one thing and another to keep up.
She was unexpected, but that made no difference; the Davenports had little company, and they were always ready to welcome the beloved sister and aunt. Linda's home was a shingled brown eight-room house, built in the first years of the century, and consequently showing the simplicity and spaciousness that were unknown in the architecture of the eighties.
For an eight-room house or smaller, a first-class steel-plate furnace, securely sealed against the escape of gas and smoke, costs free on board about $150. Each two rooms additional raises the price about $25. Other furnaces may be had as low as $50. Cost of tin work, brick setting, etc., depends upon locality.
"My idea," said I, "of a happy home is an eight-room house in a grove of live-oaks by the side of a charco on a Texas prairie.
How's everything?" he inquired, hilariously. "You taking good care of this building? Let any more eight-room apartments? You've got to keep right on the job, you know. Can't have you loafing because you've got those brass buttons." The small page showed his teeth in gleeful appreciation of their friendly intimacy. "Yassir. That's so," he answered. "Mis' Barom she's waitin' for you.
"I had a house of dreams once but it was a palace," she added, with a laugh, the sweetness of which was marred by a little note of derision. "Oh, I once dreamed of a palace, too," said Anne. "I suppose all girls do. And then we settle down contentedly in eight-room houses that seem to fulfill all the desires of our hearts because our prince is there.
Earned her own good salary, and strictly business, but she's a real woman. Says she wants her own home an 'n everything. Says every normal woman does. Says " Ad lib. They were married the following month. Hugo sub-leased the flat on South Park and took an eight-room apartment farther east.
Yet at the end of his life we find him with much more land than he had in 1760, with valuable stocks and bonds, a house and furniture infinitely superior to the eight-room house he first owned, two houses in the Federal City that had cost him about $15,000, several times as many negroes, and live stock estimated by himself at $15,653 and by his manager at upward of twice that sum.
There is an eight-room house in a live-oak grove, and a piano with an automatic player, and a good start toward the three thousand head of cattle is under fence. And when I ride home at night my pipe and slippers are put away in places where they cannot be found. But who cares for that? Who cares who cares? The Hermit of the Hudson was hustling about his cave with unusual animation.
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