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Updated: September 19, 2025
"It's an awful squash in your room," said Nora abruptly. "I don't know how you'll manage." "My fault, I suppose, for bringing so many things! But where else could I put them?" Nora nodded gravely, as though considering the excuse. The newcomer suddenly felt herself criticised by this odd schoolgirl and resented it. The door of the spare-room was open, and the girls entered upon a scene of chaos.
Well, fashion or no fashion, I don't believe there's anything prettier for a spare-room bed than a nice apple-leaf spread, that's what. I must see about getting them bleached. I've had them sewed up in cotton bags ever since Thomas died, and no doubt they're an awful color. But there's a month yet, and dew-bleaching will work wonders." Only a month!
Several times during the morning she stole to the spare-room where her graduation dress lay spread upon the high bed. Accompanied by Aunt Maria she had made a special trip to Lancaster for the frock, though Aunt Maria had conscientiously bought a few yards of muslin and apron gingham. The material was soft silky batiste of the quality Phœbe liked. The style, also, was of her choosing.
Rather more than an hour and a half later, Rose Otway, with bursting heart, but with dry, gleaming eyes for she had a nervous fear of her mother's affectionate questioning, and she had already endured Anna's well-meant, fussy, though still unspoken sympathy stood at the spare-room window of the Trellis House.
Peddlers, I had observed in like cases, opened the outside door and knocked at the inner. I tried this with no better result. I then ventured to open the inner door softly, and with feelings of awe I stood alone in the spare-room.
Tell him you'll be glad to get rid of him; and to pack up his duds and be off, lickety-cut; and it will not be a great while afore he can pop over a deer without whimpering; and a log shanty in Cayuga will seem smarter to him than a city spare-room. Come, Matthew, get ready by then I start, and I'll take you to the handsomest country in all America!"
He was that wild he'd have taken anybody." "I see," with humility. "I lost a good chance there!" "Well, if you live here you'll get others. Why, from the spare-room windows you can see the corner window down at the Coombe place. I could make out to let you have your meals, too. Only I'd expect you to be as reg'lar as Providence permitted.
Then she's bought a haircloth chair and got a new three-ply carpet in her parlor, 'n' put the old one in the spare-room 'n' the back-entry. Her daughter's down here from New Haven. She's married into one of the first families o' Connecticut, Lobelia has, 'n' she puts on a good many airs.
I wish their poor mothers could have known how well they were being cared for." Patricia drew a quick breath of pleasure. "And we'll keep them over Christmas, Daddy?" "That depends upon various things. By the way, where do you sleep to-night, Pat?" "Oh, I'll go into the spare-room, with Aunt Julia," Patricia responded, cheerfully.
Tommy had a bad throat and was not to go back to Golden Square that night, but Brigit was dining somewhere with the two Joyselle men, and was to spend the night in the now so-familiar spare-room, with the coloured religious pictures on the walls.
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