The smell of the paint's all gone now, and there's three kinds of carpet on the floor." "Dabney!" exclaimed Samantha, reproachfully, and with an appealing look at her mother, who, however, said nothing on either side, and was a woman of too much good sense to take any other view of the matter than that she had announced.
Things were again all running on smoothly and pleasantly, before dinner was over; but Dab's ideas of how the house should be divided were likely to result in some changes,--perhaps not precisely the ones he indicated, but such as would give him something better than a choice between the garret, the cellar, and the roof.

At all events, only three days would now intervene before the arrival of the two travellers, and any thing in the way of further discussion of the room question was manifestly out of order.
Every thing required for the coming reception was pushed forward by Mrs.
Kinzer with all the energy she could bring to bear; and Dab felt called upon to remark to Pamela,-- "Isn't it wonderful, Mele, how many things she finds to do after every thing's done ?" The widow had promised her son-in-law that his house should be "ready" for him, and it was likely to be a good deal more ready than either he or his wife had expected..