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"Thank you very much I hope it hasn't been a trouble." Ellen was standing by the bed in a pretty lilac silk wrapper, her hair tucked away under a little lace cap. Joanna wore her dressing-gown of turkey-red flannel, and her hair hung down her back in two great rough plaits.
"Wall," commented Lawton, after a pause, "that is a good drink. Reckon I must be goin'." "Stay t' grub!" urged Old Mizzou heartily. "Folks waitin'. Remember!" They looked at Bennington and chuckled a little, to that young man's discomfort. "Lawton's a damn fine fella'," said Old Mizzou with emphasis. Bennington thought, with a shudder, of the loose-skinned, turkey-red neck, and was silent.
Angy hesitated over the pillow-shams. Did they belong to them or to the new couple to come? Abe gazed at the shams too. They had been given to him and Angy last Christmas by all the sisters. They were white muslin with white cambric frills, and in their centers was embroidered in turkey-red cotton, "Mother," on one pillow, "Father," on the other.
In the dining-room, when Emma had trayed out the last of the things, the ladies put away the unused silver, watered the geranium, set back some of the chairs, folded up the white cloth, placing it in the sideboard drawer, spread the pretty Turkey-red one in its stead, set the reading lamp upon it; and just then the clock struck eight. "Now then," said Sharlee.
'Who knows which of my small possessions might vanish before the morning! The housekeeper's face grew turkey-red with indignation. 'Mr Cumbermede has been filling your head with some of his romances, I see, Miss Clara! I laughed, for I did not care to show myself offended with her rudeness. 'Never you mind, said Clara; 'I am not going to sleep there.
"You said you didn't care for the quality of the goods, and you know you can't match goods without you take into consideration quality and color both. If you want that quality of goods in red, you ought to get Turkey-red." I did not think it necessary to answer this remark, but said: "Then you've got nothing to match this?" "No, sir.
Last, and crowning luxury of all, a screen stood behind the low chair, manufactured out of a clothes-horse flounced with turkey-red, which was at once the comfort and distraction of Ruth's soul; for while, from her point of view, it was an indispensable comfort, shutting out draughts from window and door, and giving to her little nook the last blessing of privacy, Trix denounced the innovation as the incarnation of selfishness, Betty's teeth chattered with a noise like castanets, and Mollie peered round the corner with her shoulders huddled in a shawl, and her face at once so cheerful, so unreproving, and so bleached with cold, that it was not in human nature to refuse the desired invitation.
The square bedstead was a marvel in size and massiveness, and the heavy mahogany posts nearly black with age, and carved like the twisted strands of a rope, supported a tester lined with turkey-red pleatings, held in the centre by the talons of a gilt spread-eagle.
The girls, too, were not without distinction she who could spin the greatest number of cuts of cotton, or weave the greatest number of yards of cloth, was most distinguished, and most admired; but especially was she distinguished who could spin and weave the neatest fabric for her own wear, of white cloth with a turkey-red stripe cut, and make it fit the labor-rounded person and limbs or make, for father's or brother's wear, the finest or prettiest piece of jean cook the nicest dinners for her beau, or dance the longest without fatigue.
Then she stalked out of the room, almost majestic in her turkey-red dressing-gown. Ellen kept very close to the house during the next few days. Her face wore a demure, sullen expression towards Joanna she was quiet and sweet, and evidently anxious that there should be no further opening of hearts between them.
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