"But if we give you a whole drawer," said Miss Macy, "you must
be content with one peg in the wardrobe — will you?"
"Oh, and she can have one or two hooks in the closet," said
bright-eyes. "Come here, Miss Randolph — I will show you —"
And there in the closet I found was another place for washing,
with cocks for hot and cold water; and a press and plenty of
iron hooks; with also plenty of dresses and hats hanging on
them. Miss Lansing moved and changed several of these, till
she had cleared a space for me.
"There —" she said, "now you'll do, won't you? I don't believe
you can get a scrap of a corner in the wardrobe; Macy and
Bentley and St. Clair take it up so. _I_ haven't but one dress
hanging there, but you've got a whole drawer in the bureau."
I was not very awkward and clumsy in my belongings, but an
elephant could scarcely have been more bewildered if he had
been requested to lay his proboscis up in a glove box. "I
cannot put a dress in the drawer," I remarked.
"Oh, you can hang one up, here, under your cap; and that is
all any of us do.
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