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"I was lookin' out o' the window in my mother's sittin'-room yesterday mornin', an' when my mother an' my Uncle Frank they came up from breakfast, they didn't see me coz I was back o' the curtains. My mother she had a letter Shaw, he just gave her, and when she read it she clapped her hands together an' laughed, an' my Uncle Frank he said, 'Why such joy? an' she said, 'The greatest news!
Give you plenty of room, when the folding doors were open, for lights and effects. If there was a ceiling trap, it must be in the rooms above. I went into into the rooms" here Rosalie paused an infinitesimal second as though making a mental shift "into the room above. Just over the alcove library is a small sittin'-room. The a bedroom opens off it but has nothing to do with the case.
So, when I drop in for my reg'lar Wednesday and Sunday night calls, the main object of the expedition being to swap a little friendly chatter with Vee, and I find Auntie planted prominent and permanent in the sittin'-room, why, I just grins and makes the best of it. A patient and consistent sitter-out, Auntie is. And you know that face of hers ain't exactly the chirky sort.
Lehntman was easy and pleasant as she came into the room. Anna was stiff and silent and very white. "We haven't seen you for a long time, Anna," Mrs. Lehntman cordially began. "I was just gettin' worried thinking you was sick. My! but it's a hot day to-day. Come into the sittin'-room, Anna, and Julia will make us some ice tea." Anna followed Mrs.
Herrick, they tell how one night the women folks was sewing in the sittin'-room. Seems they was workin' on some mighty particular duds and Mrs. Phelps had lighted an extra candle; the Colonel never would allow a lamp in his house. Well, there they was sittin' with the two candles burnin' when in stomps the Colonel. 'Hey, says he, blowin' out one of the candles, 'what's all this blaze of light?
I found her all dressed up in a blue muslin with white polka dots on it, and her hair curled jest as pretty, and there wa'n't a young girl in the place could compare with her. There was somethin' about Luella Miller seemed to draw the heart right out of you, but she didn't draw it out of ME. She was settin' rocking in the chair by her sittin'-room window, and Maria Brown had gone home.
The stage will be along about five, I guess, and I'll get supper for 'em in the sittin'-room, so you can eat in your shirt-sleeves, if that'll quiet your mind." With the aspect of a November day Mr. Atwood got out the great farm-wagon and jogged down to the landing on the Hudson, which was so distant as to insure his absence for several hours. It was a busy day for Mrs. Atwood and Susan.
"Do you paint picturs too?" queried Uncle Terry, suddenly interested. "Telly's daft on doing that, an' is at it all the time she can git!" Then he added with a slight inflection of pride, "Mebbe ye noticed some o' her picturs in the sittin'-room?" "I saw a lot of pictures there," answered Albert, "but it was too dark to see them well. I should like to look at them in the morning."
Zachariah, lacking his master's good manners, gazed in open-mouthed wonder at the lady, forgetting for the moment his fear of the tempest's wrath. Only the most hair-raising crash of thunder broke the spell, causing him to close his eyes and resume his supplication. "Now's your chance to get at the lookin' glass, Mr. Gwynne," said Striker. "Right there in the sittin'-room.
To be sure, the front upper room had had the carpets taken up since the summer company went, and the beds were down; but, la, there was room enough!" "There's the east down-stairs bedroom, and the little west-room over the sittin'-room, and there's my room! I ain't never put out!" "But you are; out of your room; and you ought not to be." "Don't care!" said Mrs. Jeffords, triumphantly.
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