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But the spare bedroom was endowed with all sorts of splendour: a bed as big as a general's tent, a cheval glass whereas the Colonel shaved in a little cracked mirror, which cost him no more than King Stephen's breeches and a handsome new carpet; while the boards of the Colonel's bedchamber were as bare as bare as old Miss Scragg's shoulders, which would be so much more comfortable were they covered up.
Scragg's arrival, she hurried through her dressing in order to get down to the parlour as quickly as possible to meet him and the difficulty that was to be encountered; but before she was in a condition to be seen, she heard a man's voice on the stairs, saying "Walk up, my dear. The rooms on the second floor are ours."
Our handsome French china dinner set, which cost us a hundred and fifty dollars, is completely ruined. Half of the plates are broken, and there is scarcely a piece of it not injured or defaced. My heart aches to see the destruction going on around us." "I was in Mr. Scragg's room to-day," said Edith. "Well, what of it?" asked her mother. "It would make you sick in earnest to look in there.
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