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Updated: May 22, 2025
She had made the gray-and-rose chintz hangings herself, delighting in each exquisite yard of the fine imported material. "I prefer the green-leaf pattern, it looks so cool and fresh." Martha eyed details admiringly. "This is your bachelor's room, you say, Ellen? Oh, you've put a desk in it! The bachelor will want to stay forever. Who do you suppose he will be?"
Whether day were at hand or no was a matter of twittering debate overhead, but in the west the stars were paling one by one, like candles puffed out by the pretentious little wind that was bustling about the turquoise cupola of heaven; and eastward Bellegarde showed stark, as though scissored from a painting, against a sky of gray-and-rose. Here was a world of faint ambiguity.
The guest-rooms were airy, attractive, chintz-hung rooms, one large, one somewhat smaller, but both wearing a hospitable look of readiness. "I like the gray-and-rose room best," announced Winifred, after a critical survey, as if she were inspecting both rooms for the first time instead of the fortieth.
Her long suit is making people comfortable, and smoothing the upper sheet under their chins." "Redfield Pepper, please consider this carefully," said his wife, as they returned to the gray-and-rose room. "Remember how long you have had that downstairs room, you are attached to it, perhaps, more than you think. You have been a bachelor yourself a good while "
He looked in at the door of the gray-and-rose room, as he spoke. "Well, well!" he ejaculated. "Well, well!" And again he was silent, staring. When he spoke: "Would you mind going over there and sitting down in that willow chair with the high back?" he requested.
A clothes-press?" He advanced to the curtain and swept it aside. It hung in a doorway, and was of a heavy gray material, with an applied border of the gray-and-rose chintz. As he moved it light burst through from the other side of the wall, and Burns found himself looking into the "bachelor's room" next door. He turned, with a shout of laughter.
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