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'Then you had better not ask her again, said Stella. Whether this was true or not will be seen in the next chapter, when the four young house-hunters went to look at No. 2 Heather Road. It had become a custom that Vava should accompany her sister to the City on Saturdays and sit in the housekeeper's room, and on these occasions Mr. James would drop into Mrs.
If there are enough bedrooms to take us in, I think we shall be satisfied." This Saville trio was the most impracticable party of house-hunters whom the vicar's wife had ever known, and she wondered no longer at the difficulty they had experienced in finding a house to their taste, when she noted the spirit in which they surveyed the present premises.
The broker took the pair of house-hunters to a private room, and unfolded a map of the city before them. On this he traced, with a well-kept finger-nail, a series of lines, like those fanciful isothermal definitions that embrace the regions of perennial summer on the range of the Northern Pacific Railroad, within which social respectability made its home.
"That," said the Mordaunt Estate, wiping his painty hands on his knees with brilliant results, as he turned a fat and smiling face to them, "is after the R. Noovo style. I dunno who R. Noovo was, but he's a bear for color. Are you artists?" "We're house-hunters," explained the young man. "As for tenants," said the Mordaunt Estate, "I take 'em or leave 'em as I like 'em or don't. I like you folks.
If so, it must have been a good one. But to say this is to belittle Mary's powers of intuition. It was they, sharpened by her adoration of William, and by her intensity for everything around him, that made her so efficient a housewife. If she possessed a manual for young house-hunters it was assuredly not by the light of this that she had chosen the home they were installed in.
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