[The Debtor by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]@TWC D-Link bookThe Debtor CHAPTER II 34/47
"Those are theirs," said she.
"The Ranger girls had some handsome bound books and a silver card-receiver, and a bust of Clytie on top of the whatnot.
I suppose these are very expensive; I have always heard so. I never priced any, but it always seemed to me that they hardly showed the money." "I suppose they have afternoon tea," said Mrs.Lee, regarding a charming little inlaid tea-table, decked with Dresden. "Perhaps so," replied Mrs.Van Dorn, doubtfully.
"But I have noticed that when tea-tables are so handsome, folks don't use them.
They are more for show.
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