Sunday, August 26

Reading...

They followed him across the waiting room and up the stairs to where his mother was waiting in a little hall at their head.  She was small as Laura, and plumper, and she was daintiness itself, in a soft gray dress with snowy white ruffles at throat and wrists.  But she was so friendly that Laura felt comfortable at once.

In her bedroom they took off their wraps.  the room was as dainty as Mrs. Woodworth.  They hesitated to lay their coats on the dainty bed, with its knitted white coverlet and ruffled pillow shams.  Thin, ruffled white muslin curtains were draped back at the windows, and on a little stand-table a knitted lace doily lay under the lamp.  White knitted lace to match was spread on the bureau top, and white lace was draped across the top of the mirror frame."

Laura Ingalls Wilder

1 comment:

Mimi said...

I was contemplating the other day how very tiny Laura was. It's neat that this quote highlights that ;)

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