CHAPTER VII.
When Sally Married Peter "Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble there's no place like home! A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere." When they began arranging the house for the wedding, it could be seen that they had been expecting it, and getting ready for a long time.
From all the closets, shelves and chests poured heaps of new things.
First, the walls were cleaned and some of them freshly papered, then the windows were all washed long before regular housecleaning time, the floors were scrubbed and new carpet put down.

Mother had some window blinds that Winfield had brought her from New York in the spring, and she had laid them away; no one knew why, then.

We all knew now.

When mother was ready to put them up, father had a busy day and couldn't help her, and she was really provoked.

She almost cried about it, when Leon rode in bringing the mail, and said Hannah Dover had some exactly like ours at her windows, that her son had sent from Illinois.