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THE BEDROOM AND BOUDOIR.
[chap.
crowded with furniture, but that a little space is
left here and there where a box can be placed
without its intruding itself as a nuisance for which
one feels constantly impelled to apologise. If I
am so fortunate as to find in a corner of my room
a little frame, about two feet high made by the
Fig. 31.
village carpenter, or the big boys of the
household, for this box to stand on, then, indeed, I
know what luxury means. You have your box
so much more under your control if it is raised
a little from the floor, and it is ever so much
easier to pack and unpack. The taste and
characteristics of the owners of the house, which you may
be sure is to be found in all their surroundings,