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"We've got to know about length of curtains, and whether furniture will fit in," declared Leslie wisely. "I've thought it all out nights in the sleeper on the way over here. Just think! Isn't it going to be fun furnishing the whole house? You know, Cloudy, I didn't have hardly anything sent, because it really wasn't worth while. We sort of wanted to leave the house at home just as it was when Mamma was living, to come back to sometimes; and so we let it to an old gentleman, a friend of Grandfather's and Guardy's, who has only himself and his wife and servants, and will take beautiful care of it. But I went around and picked out anything I wanted, rugs and pictures and some bric-
The blue eyes flashed as Carl Walraven had never seen them flash before; the pink-tinged cheeks flamed rose-red; but her voice never rose, and she kept her quaint seat on the stool. "Cricket! Cricket! Cricket!" was "guardy's" reproachful cry. "You dear old thing! You wouldn't like to lose your hateful little tom-boy, would you? Well, you shan't, either. I only meant to scare you that time.
And he proceeded: "I'm quite an old friend of his; have you known him long?" "Oh! no. How long, Phyllis, since we met him at Guardy's? About a month. But he's so unaffected quite at home with us. A nice fellow." Mr. Ventnor murmured: "Very different from his father, isn't he?" "Is he? We don't know his father; he's a shipowner, I think." Mr.
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