Excerpt from Cross Corners The small room had few adornments, and those of the simplest kind. Like its mistress it was in most scrupulous order, which certainly gave a sort of beauty to the pine table and hard wooden chairs, the two breadths of rag carpet, and the bare floor beyond. Yet the ornaments, strictly speaking, were but two: the one a broad level sunbeam, which - separated somehow from its companions - streamed goldenly in from the west; the other a branch of sweet musk roses twining and clambering about the ...
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Excerpt from Cross Corners The small room had few adornments, and those of the simplest kind. Like its mistress it was in most scrupulous order, which certainly gave a sort of beauty to the pine table and hard wooden chairs, the two breadths of rag carpet, and the bare floor beyond. Yet the ornaments, strictly speaking, were but two: the one a broad level sunbeam, which - separated somehow from its companions - streamed goldenly in from the west; the other a branch of sweet musk roses twining and clambering about the same open window that let in the sunbeam, and shewing several soft white faces to the dwellers within the room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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