[The Story of Jessie by Mabel Quiller-Couch]@TWC D-Link book
The Story of Jessie

CHAPTER IX
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"Oh, it is nice! It looks like a new room, I feel as if I had gone away for a change.

Everything seems different.
Jessie, do go and ask Miss Patch to come and see it, will you?
She'd love to." Jessie flew away, willingly enough, and up the stairs until she came to the big attic at the very top of the house, which she knew was Miss Patch's.

She had not spoken to Miss Patch yet, but she had heard a good deal about her from Charlie, who seemed very fond indeed of her, and often bemoaned the fact that she lived at the very top of the house now, for he very seldom saw her; she was lame and suffered a good deal, and could not get up and down the steep stairs very well, and he could not go up to her.
As she approached the door Jessie heard a sound of a soft voice singing, and paused a moment to listen, she could not bear to interrupt.
"I may not tell the reason, 'Tis enough for thee to know That I, the Master, am teaching, And give this cup of woe." The singing ceased for a moment, and Jessie gently knocked at the door.
"Come in," said the same voice brightly; "open the door, please, and come in." Jessie did as she was bid, and stepped into one of the neatest and cleanest and oddest rooms she had ever seen in her life.
The furniture in it was scanty, but what there was was old-fashioned and good, there was a bright rug on the floor, a few pictures on the walls at each end, an old-fashioned wooden bed at one side, a dear little round table before the fire, and a large arm-chair.

The room was a large attic which really stretched over the whole of the top of the house, but though it was so large, there was really not very much available space in it, for the sides sloped steeply.

Miss Patch had curtained off the sides, and out of the long narrow strip down the middle had formed, in Jessie's opinion, one of the nicest rooms she had ever seen.
The owner of the room looked up at Jessie with a bright smile, a smile which brightened still more when Jessie gave her message.
"Please, Charlie wants to know if you will come down and see his room.


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