Miller, Olive Beaupré, ed, Wyeth, N. C. (Newell Convers), 1882-1945, illustrator · Chicago : The Bookhouse for children · leaf 234
de haste to unbar and unchain the front door,kept always in this fortified condition from fear of tramps whomight be supposed to know of the glass case of stuffed birds inthe hall and to contemplate rushing in and carrying it away ontheir heads. Aunt Pullet, too, appeared at the doorway, and,… … When the ceremony of shoe-wiping was over, Aunt Pullet con-ducted Mrs. Tulliver and the girls in solemn procession upstairsalong the bright and slippery corridor into the darkened best roomwhere the outer light, entering feebly, showed what looked likethe ghosts of furniture in white shrouds.…
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