. St. Nicholas [serial]. ad gone forth on hererrand, Molly stole into the wonderful frontrooms. There was the parlor and the sparebedroom and the little empty room beyond. Thecurtains were all pulled down, and there was astrange, fascinating closeness. Molly used tocome in the darkness, sometimes, and think ofthe people who had lived there, and of thecompany who had sat stiffly on the glossy seatsof the horsehair chairs. After she had been there for a while she couldsee the faint outlines of the old, old pictures onthe wall, and the spectral presence of a strangebead and red flannel structure
. St. Nicholas [serial]. ad gone forth on hererrand, Molly stole into the wonderful frontrooms. There was the parlor and the sparebedroom and the little empty room beyond. Thecurtains were all pulled down, and there was astrange, fascinating closeness. Molly used tocome in the darkness, sometimes, and think ofthe people who had lived there, and of thecompany who had sat stiffly on the glossy seatsof the horsehair chairs. After she had been there for a while she couldsee the faint outlines of the old, old pictures onthe wall, and the spectral presence of a strangebead and red flannel structure which stood inthe very middle of the table, which, in its turn,stood in the very middle of the parlor. There THE GOOD FORTUNE OF MOLLY VAN. 499 was a wood puzzle on the table, too, and twicein her life Molly had been allowed to handle itand put it together. There was an album withall the photographs of the Dobbs family, andMolly liked on Sundays to get it out and lookat the ladies in wide, flaring skirts, with their hair. in nets or coming down in ringlets, with funnylittle combs at the side. When Mrs. Dobbs came back she calledMolly from the barn, where she had goneto see Mother Blanche and her kittens were just beginning to roll aboutthe floor, and they looked like small balls ofsnow. Mrs. Dobbs seemed worried. They want everything moved out of therooms, she was saying to Susan; and what Iam goin to do with it all I dont know. Theywont have the feather-beds, but will bring their beds with them; and there is a maid, and I shallhave to give her the room off the settin-room,and the girl will take the little room, and theboy is to have the spare room, and they willfurnish the parlor as their settin-room. I dontbelieve, continued Mrs. Dobbs, that that girlis a day over sixteen, and sheplans as if she were twenty. The next morning the thingscame. Molly was set to workin the kitchen to prepare thevegetables for dinner, and shecould only run now and thento the window to s
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