I was not
impatient nor especially chagrined on account of this necessity. Secretly
willing to await the departure of the Cradlebow's ship, to have a brief
season of rest from all care and responsibility among the scenes of my
past labors--a little breathing space in which to study these people
quietly, to exchange unhurried kindly words with them before I should go
away from them forever--I was glad to have it so.
Such welcomings and congratulations as I received from the Wallencampers
when I was able to get down the stairs once more! I felt very happy,
almost humble, sitting where the sunlight poured in at the open door
of Grandma's living-room.
That picture is still before my mind: the bare, shining floor, the
unpainted table, the chimney-shelf, and a clock, the successful working
of whose machinery demanded a crazily tilted attitude; a Bible on the
shelf, too, and Grandma's spectacles lying askew. Then, a commodious
lounge of exceedingly simple construction set up straight against the
wall and extending the whole length of the room. The original framework
of this lounge, by the way, disclosed itself in many bold and striking
instances, under a unique method of upholstery.
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