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"I mean a woman is made for incumbrances, and if she don't have any " She hesitated, and looked around the room with its simple furnishings, its firelight and lamplight, its many books and few pictures, its rugs and desk and tables, the gifts of other days, and presently she spoke again. "Being you like so to look out the windows, it's well this house has two front rooms opening into each other.
There were only two rooms, but it was quite fine with some of the Bellestre furnishings. At one end a big fireplace and a seat each side of it. Opposite, the sleeping chamber with one narrow bed and a high one, covered with Indian blankets. Beds and pillows of pine and fir needles were renewed often enough to keep the place curiously fragrant.
So he would not hear of any alterations in the furnishings of his villa, except those suggested by his ideas of sanitation. Otherwise it had been kept just as my grandfather had left it to him.
The young man followed his employer into the brightly-lighted library; it was the same room, with the same furnishings that it had worn that evening when he, a forlorn, trembling boy, had made his first call, and at midnight, on Mr. Stephens. "What unearthly business brought you out at this hour?" said the wondering Mr. Stephens. "Premonitions of evil," answered Theodore, laughing.
The kitchen was deserted, a broken-down stove in one corner, a water heater covered with dirt and rust, a sagging sink, and two battered chairs and a table completing the furnishings. A soft breeze entered through a broken window and gently stirred the strip of wall paper hanging limply from the ceiling. Bob beckoned to Hugh and they emerged into the room. They listened intently.
A poor little altar with a few tawdry furnishings at the further end, a confessional box falling to pieces with age, and a few chairs these were all that it contained besides. Eleanor sank kneeling beside one of the chairs.
But even the sale of the negroes and his other merchandise and property failed to satisfy his clamorous creditors or to pay his gambling debts. Those obligations at cards it was necessary to meet, so he moved out of his bachelor apartments, turned over his expensive furnishings and bric-
The hickory gave the frontiersman wood for all implements and furnishings where the demand was equally for lightness, strength, and elasticity. It provided his straight logs for building, his block mortars hollowed by fire and stone for corn-grinding, his solid plain furniture, his axles, rifle butts, ax handles, and so forth.
The furnishings were abominable, a mixture of distressingly new articles with those evidently procured from dealers in "antiquities." Money had been lavished here, but good taste was absent. To understand this for Miss Von Taer gauged the condition truly it is necessary to know something of Mrs. Martha Merrick.
Her guilt seems to me probable, because she has literally abandoned her house and her belongings. An innocent woman would scarcely leave all those modern and valuable furnishings unless for some very strong reason. But as to finding her a needle in a haystack presents an easy problem by contrast!" "Doubtless she is hiding in the house of some friend," suggested Ruth, thoughtfully.
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