Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 193
om the blue room to the brown. No advertised perfumes were used in grand-mothers house, yet the things in the drawershad a faint sweet breath of their own; espe-cially it lingered about those belongings of hermothers time—the odor of seclusion, of by-gone cleanliness and household purity. The spare… … unlighted and shutters darkened. Its verycolors were cool and decorous, white andgreen and dark mahogany polish, door-knobsand candlesticks gleaming, andirons reflectedin the dull-red shine of the hearth. After sundown, if friends were expected bythe evening boat, the shutters were fastenedback,…
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