... green table-centre with a red pattern of roses, a thick table-napkin ring worked in ... — Jeremy • Hugh Walpole
... about the other. Huldah shuddered at the changeless fried eggs and boiled potatoes; and Cyrus ordered a heavy storm window for the room where Huldah slept alone. Huldah slyly left a new apple pie almost under her husband's nose one day, and Cyrus slipped a five-dollar bill beneath his wife's napkin ring. When both pie and greenback remained untouched, Huldah cried, and Cyrus said, "Gosh darn it!" three times in succession behind the ... — Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter
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