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"I suppose there isn't anything to say Look here, Nelly, hasn't that

stage-driver brought the ha to eat?"

"Oh, pretty soon," she said i s in the parlor; through

the tilted slats of the Venetian blinds the April sunshine fell in

pale bars across her hair and dress, across the old Turkey carpet on

the floor, across the high white wainscoting and half-way up the

landscape-papered walls The roonity; the

heavy, old-fashioned furniture of the Stuffed Ani rather near the ceiling, had not

been res, and old and very

good colored prints of Audubon's birds The mantel-piece of black

marble veined with yelloas supported by fluted colulass vases of decalcoilt

lustres with prisms, then two hand-screens of ork, and in the

lass shade In

the recess at one side of the fireplace was a tall bookcase with

closed doors, but a claw-footed sofa stood out frole that prevented any access to the books "I can't read Stuffed