“There was room in Miss Lavinia’s kitchen chamber to stow them all away. There were not a great many pictures, and it took only a few minutes before they were standing face to the wall in a compact bunch, ready for Johnny any time he should demand a load. Next she went through the little parlor gathering out a few books and papers, a few vases and ornaments that would need to be packed carefully in her bureau drawers. She came back from carrying them upstairs and looked around, trying to banish ...the memory of the flower-banked casket that had stood over in the bay window only yesterday, trying to keep back the tears. Ah! Pain and sweetness and love and parting. How they were mingled. But she must not stop to think. She must go on and get things done. It would all be easier, perhaps, if she would just goad herself with the thought that she must get as much done as possible, irrevocably, before the Ladies’ Aid should descend upon her. She looked around the parlor again, removed a couple of chairs that she did not care to keep, a little table that she never had liked and that had no special associations.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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