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Bayre found Miss Merriman in the dining-room, which, with a woman's taste, she had managed to make very pretty. The shabby leather sofa was covered by a piece of handsome tapestry of subdued tints, and the cottage piano stood out from the wall in the modern manner, adorned with a handsome embroidered back, and with a vase of flowers on one corner.
There was a work-basket, too, in the room, and there was a most dainty cot, in which the baby boy lay asleep.