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"I think," said Clara, "that the champagne coolers are unnecessary."
The solid silver champagne coolers adorned either side of the fireplace.
"As receptacles for potted ferns they are, it is true, not quite in the
best of taste," I admitted. "We might leave them in the hall for
umbrellas and canes. But then they might be overlooked, and we must take
no chances on a careless burglar."
Clara sat down and began to laugh, which I confess was quite the natural
thing to do. Solid silver bread dishes holding sweet peas, individual
almond dishes filled with matches, silver baskets for cigars and
cigarettes crowded the room, with silver candlesticks sprouting from
every ledge and table. The dining-room was worse--but then solid silver
terrapin dishes and muffineers, not to mention the two dozen almond
dishes left over from the parlor, are not at all appropriate
decorations.
"I'm sure the burglars will never come," said Clara, woman fashion.
"If there's anything will keep them away," I said, a little provoked,
"it's just that attitude of mind.
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