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In one corner of the large basement was a good-sized workbench, lighted by two windows, and equipped with several neatly-arranged shelves, which now held a divers collection of chisels, bits, countersinks, etc.
In winter the roof was covered for weeks and months by a blanket of snow which looked like a shawl of impacted wool, white and restful, and the windows of the house were spread with frost. But the pigeons were always gay, walking on the ledges or crowding on the shelves of the lead pipes. He studied them much, but he loved them more.
Dolores was still rather tired, and more inclined to make friends with the books than with the cousins. There were fewer than she expected, and nothing like so many absolute stories as she was used to reading with Maude Sefton. 'Those are such grown-up books, she said to Mysie, who came to assist her choice, and pointed to the upper shelves.
With the help of a little electric lamp, we were able to look about us. The first thing that met my eyes was the library. There stood the Framheim library, and it made the same good impression as everything else books numbered from 1 to 80 in three shelves. The catalogue lay by the side of them, and I cast my eye over it.
The tiny silvery-white feathers near her shoulders rose like fur on a cat's back. One hand was clenched; the other grasped a chair. Her face was not terrified; neither was it white. It glowed with rage, as if a fire had been built in an alabaster vase. All about on the floor, on chairs, over shelves lay the gauds that had lured them to their capture. Of them all, Julia alone showed no change.
Our school library at that time was pitifully small and ludicrously prescriptive, but its shelves held a few of the fine old classics, Scott, Dickens and Thackeray the kind of books which can always be had in sets at very low prices and in nosing about among these I fell, one day, upon two small red volumes called Mosses from an Old Manse.
The question now agitating me was whether they would endeavor to fix the time at which the shelves fell by the evidence furnished by the clock. Evidently not; for the next words I heard were: "Miss Amelia Butterworth!" I had not expected to be called so soon, and was somewhat flustered by the suddenness of the summons, for I am only human.
A few delicate tea roses, some crimson blush roses, some pots of delicious purple heliotropes with spicy breath; two or three or four great double carnations; bunches of violets, sweetest of all; she wanted these! Then some azaleas, larger of course, to fill up the shelves and make a beautiful show of colour, as Norton desired.
The titles of the books are in Public Libraries, June, 1900, and are largely from the grown-up shelves. This was five or six years before our boys' and girls' room was opened and the children had free access to all their own books. The third year the programme was a little varied.
She was, no doubt, nervous and excited as to the probable result of her lover's mission to the Hall, and wanted to be alone with Anne in order that they might speculate upon those probabilities which Banks's return would presently transform into certainties. Anne turned to me before they left the room and indicated three shelves of books half hidden behind the settle.
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