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 276  when it was all done. The cool, cucumbery green parlour was just the right shade to melt into the soft blue and white of the front bedroom. As for the dainty pink room, as Bettie said, rapturously, it fairly made one smell roses to look at it, it was so sweet.

It was finished by the following night, for no paper-hanger could have had the heart to linger over his work with so many anxious eyes following every movement. Mrs. Tucker washed and ironed and mended the white muslin curtains and, with such a bower to move into, the second moving-in and settling, the girls decided, was really better than the first. When their belongings were finally re-installed in the cottage even Mabel no longer felt resentful toward the Milligans.