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"A comfortable chair or two and curtains and pictures aren't knickknacks, as you call them. The cost wouldn't amount to anything." Benton stuffed the bowl of a pipe and lighted it before he essayed reply. "Look here, Stella," he said earnestly.
Phebe, dear, you shall dust round a mite, just as you used to, for I haven't had anyone to do it as I like since you've been gone, and it will do me good to see all my knickknacks straightened out in your tidy way," said the elder lady, getting up with a refreshed expression on her rosy old face. "Shall I dust in here too?" asked Phebe, glancing toward an inner room which used to be her care.
Rachel had a curious way of asking every one she met for presents and knickknacks, whether they were valuable or not. She knew how to make them valuable. Once in a studio she noticed a guitar hanging on the wall. She begged for it very earnestly. As it was an old and almost worthless instrument, it was given her.
The fact is, I've taken a fancy to it, and should like to fit it up myself. Have I your permission?" "Certainly, my dear Sylvester." "I've some knickknacks in my trunks, and I'll do it at once." "As you like." "And you'll see that I am not disturbed; and you'll explain it to Kitty, with my apologies?" "Yes." "Then I'm off." Gabriel glanced at his brother with a perplexed smile.
He ushered me into a large sitting room of the type one would expect to find in such a place, but which, by dint of many cushions, flowers, and feminine knickknacks, had been made to look presentable. Eve was seated in an easy-chair by the fire. She turned round at my entrance and laughed. "Where's my necklace, please?" she demanded.
"Don't you think we could make this place a lot more homelike, Charlie?" she ventured, when they were back in their own quarters. "I suppose it suits a man who only uses it as a place to sleep, but it's bare as a barn." "It takes money to make a place cosy," Benton returned. "And I haven't had it to spend on knickknacks." "Fiddlesticks!" she laughed.
He made the circuit of the bedroom quarters. All, until he came to Alan's chamber, were locked from without, and bore the marks of a prolonged disuse. But Alan's was a room in commission, filled with clothes, knickknacks, letters, books, and the conveniences of a solitary man. The fire had been lighted; but it had long ago burned out, and the ashes were stone cold.
"I tell thee, Lady Laura," said her husband, coming nearer and speaking low, "we may well be proud. All this trifling in art and knickknacks in which it hath pleased the boy to spend himself, like so many of his hose, hath fluttered off from him like silken ribbons hanging harmless in the wind, and hath left him with a head quite clear of nonsense for the Senate's work.
Costello, now that she thought no more of returning to the Cottage, had decided to sell it; all their possessions, therefore, had to be divided into three parts, the furniture to be sold with the house, their more personal belongings to go with them, and various books and knickknacks to be left as keepsakes with their friends. It was generally known now all over Cacouna that Mrs.
But a tiny bracket or two, three or four handsome engravings, two fresh wreaths of evergreens, two vases of garden flowers, a number of Swiss and French knickknacks, and a few prettily-bound books, give the little nest an air of refinement which is almost elegance. You judge at once that the occupant must be a woman a woman moreover of sensibility and taste; a woman of good society.
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