[Gypsy’s Cousin Joy by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps]@TWC D-Link bookGypsy’s Cousin Joy CHAPTER VIII 23/36
Could you please to fasten it up on the wall just opposite the bed where the sun shines in? sometime after she's gone to sleep, you know." Miss Jane, somewhat bewildered, took the thing that Gypsy held out to her, and held it up in the light that fell from a neighbor's half-open door. It was a large illuminated text, painted on Bristol board of a soft gray shade, and very well done for a non-professional artist.
The letters were of that exquisite shade known by the artists as _smalt_ blue, edged heavily with gold, and round them a border of yellow, delicate sprays of wheat.
Miss Jane spelled out in German text: "And the Inhabitants shall not say I am Sick." "Well, thank you.
I'll put it up.
Peace never gets asleep till terrible late, and I'm rather worn out with work to lie awake waitin' till she is.
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