[Tommy and Grizel by J.M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookTommy and Grizel CHAPTER V 3/22
The warping-mill was gone--everything that had been there was gone.
What met the delighted eyes of Elspeth and Tommy was a cozy parlour, which became a bedroom when you opened that other door. "You are a leddy now, Elspeth," Aaron said, husky with pride, "and you have a leddy's room.
Do you see the piano ?" He had given up the warping, having at last "twa three hunder'" in the bank, and all the work he did now was at a loom which he had put into the kitchen to keep him out of languor.
"I have sorted up the garret, too, for you," he said to Tommy, "but this is Elspeth's room." "As if Tommy would take it from me!" said Elspeth, running into the kitchen to hug this dear Aaron. "You may laugh," Aaron replied vindictively, "but he is taking it frae you already"; and later, when Tommy was out of the way, he explained his meaning.
"I did it all for you, Elspeth; 'Elspeth's room,' I called it.
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