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Updated: May 26, 2025
Before long he began to look forward eagerly to Thursday nights and Miss Monon's cozy corner with its red-plush cushions reminiscent of chair-cars, to be sure and its darkness illumined dimly by red and green signal lamps.
Babbitt's party politely edged through them and into the whitewashed room, at the front of which was a dais with a red-plush throne and a pine altar painted watery blue, as used nightly by the Grand Masters and Supreme Potentates of innumerable lodges. The hall was full. As Babbitt pushed through the fringe standing at the back, he heard the precious tribute, "That's him!"
She declared that on the previous evening she had placed them out upon a little polished table set against the heavy red-plush curtains and close to the dressing-table. She believed that her mistress had worn them upon her corsage on the Sunday night, and that on retiring she had locked them in her jewel-box. On the contrary, Mrs. Bainbridge did not wear them, a fact to which everyone testified.
Even her prized engraving of "Michael Angelo Buonarotti" contentedly regarding his just finished Moses, while a pope tiptoed into the room through a side-door had been removed, with all its splendors of red-plush and intricate gilt-framing.
Then she settled back against the luxury of her dusty red-plush seat with a soft little sigh. The swift motion of the train was most exhilarating, for every single click of the car-wheels meant a turn which brought her just that much nearer to her father and Elinor and the wonderful Visit.
The whole situation nauseated him; he felt that if he didn't escape from that red-plush parlor very soon, he was going to be violently sick. "I am now in a position to look after my wife's niece, and I propose to do so. From what I have heard from you both, I should think you would be rather glad than sorry to part with her."
Madame Griggs, who had been rocking jerkily in a small, red-plush chair which squeaked faintly, sprang up, and left it still rocking and squeaking. "Yes," said she, "yes, that is so. Look at the way the whole family dress, at other people's expense!" She was hysterical still, yet she had not lost her sense of the gentility of self-restraint. That would come later.
Certainly there was nothing in the announcement of the now too friendly clerk that "she had a visitor who looked like new money," to prognosticate that once Kate had crossed the threshold of the red-plush parlor, her life would never be the same again.
He didn't have to breathe that air and sit in a slippery red-plush seat. Not much! He went to the drip, serenely careless of the thousand eyes upon him; he drank and clicked to Girl o' Mine, his mare. She pricked up her ears and approached a step or two; she tossed her head and whinnied; she was afraid of the drip and spatter of the overflow. He drank again. "See," he said, "it'll not hurt you.
My method of travel has always been to arrange everything beforehand with meticulous foresight. In the most crowded trains and boats I have thus secured luxurious accommodation. To hear therefore that there were no berths free and that we should have to pass the night either on the windy deck or in the red-plush discomfort of the open saloon caused me not unreasonable dismay.
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