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Updated: June 19, 2025
We, with our added culture and our maturer artistic perceptions, may smile at a Jacob's Ladder formed according to the domestic architecture of the first half of the nineteenth century; but the people to whom the other world was so near and so real that they perceived nothing incongruous in an ordinary stair-carpet which was being trodden by the feet of angels, had grasped a truth which on one side touched the divine, even though on the other it came perilously near to the grotesque.
When he had taken her candle from the table and lighted it, he paused for a moment or so before he handed it to her, looking at her very earnestly all the while, as she stood at the foot of the staircase, with saddened face and downcast eyes, gravely contemplative of the stair-carpet. "Is it positively too late?" he asked. "You must feel and know that it is so," she answered.
Again the word derided her. She opened the door, crossed the narrow hall, and walked up the stairs. As she passed, she noticed Westall's sticks and umbrellas: a pair of his gloves lay on the hall table. The same stair-carpet mounted between the same walls; the same old French print, in its narrow black frame, faced her on the landing. This visual continuity was intolerable.
The drawing-room was forthwith dusted for the third time that morning; three or four chairs were pulled out of their places, and a corresponding number of books carefully upset, in order that there might be a due absence of formality. Down went the piece of stair-carpet before noticed, and up ran Mrs. Tibbs ‘to make herself tidy.’
They had now passed across the hall, and were on the bottom stair. "Certainly not." "And you are not angry for what happened before?" She did not look into his face as she asked this question, but stood with her eyes fixed on the stair-carpet. "Indeed no." "Good night, Frank." "Good night, Lizzie."
"O yes very well, and I'll be courtier; only I must get a sofa- cushion to be Perdita." "And where's Bohemia?" "Oh! the hall must be Bohemia, and the stair-carpet the sea, because then the aunts won't hear the lion and bear roaring."
Nail sides as you go along, until you are quite sure that the carpet is fully stretched, and that there is no fold anywhere in the length of it. Make stair-carpet longer than necessary, and change it so that it will not cover the steps in the same way each time of putting down. Moved about in this way, the carpet will last much longer. Clean the rods with oxalic acid. They should be kept bright.
'What kind of pad? asked Stella, who with Amy was laying the stair-carpet. 'Velvet, said Eva, absent-mindedly. 'What nonsense, Eva! What do you mean? demanded Amy. Eva, who had been looking out of the staircase window, turned her head. 'I wasn't thinking of what I was saying felt, I mean or, failing that, folds of newspapers, and by so doing you double the life of your carpet, she explained.
Jim ran home with half-a-sovereign in his pocket, while I walked back to dress for dinner. On the stairs I met my aunt, already in evening array, and looking hungry. I knew the sign, and stealthily tried to vanish, vainly. "Late again, Samuel!" she remarked, with a freezing spectacle-gleam that fixed me to the stair-carpet my right foot two steps above the left. "You have just come in, I suppose.
We had a lovely day, but everybody we met on the river looked very unhappy, and nobody seemed to be at all glad that we were there or that we were rising to the occasion. When we got home I was too tired to notice things, but my sister, who sees everything, whispered: "I verily believe they've put down a new stair-carpet to-day." The next morning such a sight met our astonished eyes.
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