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It was during this last social meal that the youth would tell his mother all that had occurred in his world outside the home that day, and all that he expected to come to pass the next, for Traverse was wonderfully hopeful and sanguine. And after supper the evening was generally spent by Traverse in hard study beside his mother's sewing-stand.
A sewing-stand supported a huge family Bible. The walls were papered in brown and a brown ingrain carpet covered the floor. There was a couch under the side window and a few upholstered chairs were scattered about. Now that the windows were open and the warm sunlight was streaming in, it was a cosy, shabby, homey little room. Wade opened the door into the hall.
I hadn't the faintest notion as to their actual value, though I knew it must be considerable enough to make up to Nicholas Jelnik the losses he had sustained; enough to decide his fate and mine. Even now he was packing to go; even now there were "For Sale" signs on the gray cottage. I ran into our living-room, snatched my sewing-bag from the sewing-stand, and dropped the heavy bag into it.
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