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The
Borrowers Arrietty had wandered through the
open door into the sitting-room - the fire had been lighted and the
room looked bright and cosy. Homily was proud of her sitting-room:
the walls had been papered with scraps of old letters out of
waste-paper baskets, and Homily had arranged the handwriting
sideways in vertical stripes which ran floor from ceiling. On the
walls, repeated in various colours, hung several portraits of Queen
Victoria as a girl; these were postage stamps, borrowed by Pod some
years ago from the stamp-box on the desk in the morning-room. There
was a lacquer trinket-box, padded inside and with the lid open
which they used as a settle; and that useful stand-by - a chest of
drawers made of match-boxes. There was round table with a red
velvet cloth, which Pod had made from the wooden bottom of a
pill-box supported on the carved pedestal of a knight from the
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