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She kept pressin' Kenelm to have a little more, so 'twas after three when they got up from the table. "'Twas a rainy, drizzly afternoon and the stove felt mighty homey and cozy. So did the big rocker that Hannah transplanted from the parlor to the settin'-room.
"Now, ye must remember, Mike, that this isn't the house; these is plans, as Mr. Benedict has drawed. That's the kitchen, and that's the settin'-room, and that's the cubberd, and that's the bedroom for us, ye know, and on that other paper is the chambers." Mike looked at it all earnestly, and with a degree of awe, and then shook his head.
When he reached the porch, the twins provided him with a basin of water, a "noggin" of lye soap, and a towel; and telling him he would find the "coarse comb on the chist of drawers in the settin'-room," hurried to the poultry-yard, where the chickens were already off their roosts and clamoring for their morning meal. His toilet completed, Dudley started for a ramble before breakfast.
"I'll have my wrapper an' my slippers, an' I'll set in the big chair out in the settin'-room. That's Parson Gerry's voice, an' I want ter see him." "But, Aunt Abby " began Ella, feverishly. "Well, I declare, if there ain't another sleigh drivin' in," cried the old woman excitedly, sitting up in bed and peering through the little window. "Must be they're givin' us a s'prise party.
"There's one of 'em in the settin'-room balancin' a plug-hat on his knees and sayin', 'Lo! the bridegroom cometh'; and there's two on the front steps kickin' the dog ev'ry time he comes at 'em; and there's one in the kitchen that smells o' tar, and has got a bagful of shells and sech things for presents to me; there's one in the barn lookin' over the stock and I s'pose they're comin' down the chimbly and up the suller stairs by this time.
I said to Si last night I should stand it till 'bout Friday, seein' 'em lay on the grass there, but if she didn't take 'em in then, I should go over and offer to help her. She has a fire in the settin'-room 'most every night, though we ain't had a frost yet; and as near's I can make out, she's got full red curtains hangin' up to her windows.
She had attempted once to fix up the "spare room" and have a fire for some company, but her father had peremptorily forbidden it. "I'd like to know," he said, "why the settin'-room ain't good enough! If your company is too nice to be with the rest of the family they can stay away, miss." And "they" generally did stay away after one visit. Mr.
"I didn't know as you wanted to know," began Mrs. Bolton, with a sullen defiance mixed with pleasure in Annie's reproach. "He was out there in my settin'-room with his little girl." "But don't you see that if you didn't let me know he was here it would look to him as if I didn't wish to meet him as if I had told you that you were not to introduce him?" Probably Mrs.
I got up, an' went to the bed. "'Be you dry? says I. He made a little motion, an' then he lifted his hand an' p'inted out into the settin'-room. "Do you want Lyddy Ann? says I. 'She's laid down. No, he didn't want her. I went to the settin'-room door an' looked out, an' I dunno how 'twas it all come to me.
Moss, as they drew round the fire in the "settin'-room," leaving the tea-things to take care of themselves.
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