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The next morning Beth opened her eyes upon a chill gray world. She / jumped out of bed and into her cuddly bedroom slippers and drew aside / her window curtains. The asphalt pavement seemed to have spread out / and up over the whole sky; air, clouds, people and city walls looked / of a piece and a color with the hard iron-gray road, giving the avenue / the effect of an asphalt tube, bottom, sides and top alike. Snowflakes / drifted through the air as if they did not half like it and found it / too bleak to call down their comrades to make a cheerful snow-storm.
Beth remembered that it was Monday morning and that Aunt Rebecca and / Ella Lowndes had deep-seated objections to bad weather on washing day, / "because it made the whole week crooked. " She hoped that the sun was / shining in Massachusetts, and her heart leaped joyously as she realized / that she was in fairy-land-come-true, where there were no washing days / with their hurried, light dinners, but where the sun always shone, no / matter what was the weather. Her feet in their fleecy blue slippers / danced a few steps until the lavish blue satin bows on the slippers / waved blithely, and she hurried to begin dressing, meaning to surprise / Frieda when she came by being nearly ready.