: Your room
looks wide enough to have the one
sofa under the window as it is in your layout, but instead of having the second
sofa directly opposite it, put that
sofa where the blue chairs are now, in an «L» formation.
-LSB-...] Such a capering and hiding; stitching, knitting, clipping, cutting, and pasting; red paper and blue paper; spangles of gold and silver; purses, cuffs, lamp - rugs, slippers, and neck - ties; gewgaws, and filigree, and gimcracks; green trees, hung all over with colored balls, little angels, and candy horsemen; wax tapers and bits of
looking - glass; such surprises hid in fancy boxes and bags, on the tops of the wardrobes, behind the bureaus, and
under the
sofas, for Tom, Dick, and Harry; mysterious whisperings, secret conferences, knowing
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