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The cot had appeared there in the back of the music-store, behind a dark sateen curtain with too few rings on the wire. How little else was in there, nobody knew. But those passing in the late evening saw the blur of his kerosene lamp behind that curtain and were smitten by a realistic illusion of personal loneliness.
They had come fifteen miles by the trail from the far distant division house on "Four" of Los Muertos and had ridden on horseback instead of driving. Mrs. Cutter could be heard declaring that she was nearly dead and felt more like going to bed than dancing. The two girl cousins, in dresses of dotted Swiss over blue sateen, were doing their utmost to pacify her.
Bedspread of rose dotted swiss, with wide ruffle. A Large Box For waists, etc. Covered in rose and gray cretonne. A Desk To correspond with painted furniture; a gray blotter and rose colored pen. Two Chairs One of natural wicker with cushions of rose sateen, and one of wood to correspond with painted furniture, caned seat.
For a long time the guests huddled close to the doorway; the lower end of the floor was crowded! the upper end deserted; but by degrees the lines of white muslin and pink and blue sateen extended, dotted with the darker figures of men in black suits. The conversation grew louder as the timidity of the early moments wore off.
The hour was Mr. Enwright's customary hour of arrival, but he had no fair excuse for passing through that room instead of proceeding along the corridor direct to the principals' room. His aspect, as he gazed at George's hair and at the revealed sateen back of George's waistcoat, was unusual. Mr.
On the eve of the sad event she produced a reserve of black sateen, the kitchen steps and a box of tin-tacks, and decorated the house with festoons and bows of black in the best possible taste. She tied up the knocker with black crape, and put a large bow over the corner of the steel engraving of Garibaldi, and swathed the bust of Mr.
I have been able to get through some work, and have been busy making a cover for the Communion cloth out of the material E gave us; with bands of white sateen and a white cross in the centre it looks quite nice. Two little canaries I brought from the Cape have had to be put by the fireside to be kept warm. Wednesday, June 27.
One Comfortable Chair Brown wicker, or the Windsor type. A Lamp Of the student type, or on a bracket, securely fastened on the wall. A Tie Rack Hung near chest of drawers. One or two shelves For books, trophies, etc. Made of plain wood, stained to match the woodwork of a plain bookcase of mission oak. Curtains Of blue denim, with stitched bands of sateen at edge hung straight.
George hoped, however, that Mr. Haim would again be absent, and he was anticipating exquisite hours. At the precise instant when he put his latchkey in the door the door was pulled away from him by a hand within, and he saw a woman of about thirty-five, plump but not stout, in a blue sateen dress, bonneted but not gloved. She had pleasant, commonplace features and brown hair.
Fastened together so as to form a tube, covered with red sateen, and supported by scarlet-stockinged legs, the effect would be pleasingly true to life. "I'll have peep-holes for eyes, and the slit will outline my mouth.
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