In Blessed Cyrus Author:Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1921 Original Publisher: D. Appleton and Company Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Classics Fiction / Historical Fiction / Literary Juvenile Fiction / Classics Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ... more »typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE NEW NEIGHBORS CYRUS, after the first shock (for it was a shock to have Emmeline Tooth, who had "meeched and mourned ever since she had the use of language" come riding back in her coach as a millionaire) ! Cyrus, I say, after the first shock, rallied round its new neighbors "as one bein'," to quote Mr. Mallow. Mrs. Judge Peters, who had been at school with poor Emmy, went to New York on purpose to choose her rugs and curtains. Mr. Mallow hemmed a set of "wipers" for her, and saw to the renovating of the good old furniture with which the house was tolerably well stocked, lending Rosanna Sullivan and Billy and standing over them while they rubbed and scrubbed and polished. Of course this, like all the rest, was wholly unnecessary. Of course, the inheritor of a million dollars had only to wave a hand, and an army of skilled workers would have sprung up like magic; but that was not Cyrus' way. And besides, "you can't buy elbow- grease," said Mr. Mallow, "nor yet gumption!" Kitty and Tom Lee worked in the garden, bringing plants, cuttings, seeds, from their own and every other garden in Cyrus. The Chanters did wonders in the way of doing up sash curtains, bureau covers, table linen and the like. The ample linen room was stored with the household plenishing of Russell Gaylord's mother, damask, huckaback and birdseye, all yellowwith age, but still good, and very good. "Seventy sheets, if you will believe me, my dear, and ten pair...« less