Excerpt from The Legacy: A Story of a Woman The door with the fan-lights opened into the middle room, which was furnished with a red and blue ingrain carpet on the floor; a stupendous old mahogany sofa; a high-shouldered mahogany bookcase with glass doors to the upper half and columns with ornate capitals up the sides, and a middle drawer which, upon pressing a spring, mysteriously let down and became a desk; a round mahogany table, with a top of black marble veined with yellow; and finally four mahogany and black ...
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Excerpt from The Legacy: A Story of a Woman The door with the fan-lights opened into the middle room, which was furnished with a red and blue ingrain carpet on the floor; a stupendous old mahogany sofa; a high-shouldered mahogany bookcase with glass doors to the upper half and columns with ornate capitals up the sides, and a middle drawer which, upon pressing a spring, mysteriously let down and became a desk; a round mahogany table, with a top of black marble veined with yellow; and finally four mahogany and black haircloth chairs with a slat shaped like a lyre up the backs. Around on the cloudy wall-paper there were half a dozen sallow old steel-engravings in black and gilt frames, each one hung by a red woollen cord from a mighty picture-nail with a china top as big as a dollar. The seeming miracle of how such a nail could be driven without smashing the head to atoms at the first blow was made clear to Letty one day during housecleaning when she saw her mother mount the step ladder while Mrs. Hatfield held' it firm, and with an able hand for all her motions were vigorous and well directed unscrew the china head in one turn! The pictures in their order were George Washington. 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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