My Dear Doris : I have decided to give up housekeeping and go out West to live with Robert . So I am disposing of such of the family heirlooms as I do not wish to take with me . I am sending you by express your Grandmother Hunter 's silk quilt . It is a handsome article still and I hope you will prize it as you should . It took your grandmother five years to make it . There is a bit of the wedding dress of every member of the family in it . Love to Penelope and yourself . Your affectionate aunt , Adella Hunter . `` I do n't see its beauty , '' said Penelope with a grimace . `` It may have been pretty once , but it is all faded now . It is a monument of patience , though . The pattern is what they call ` Little Thousands , ' is n't it ? Tell me , Dorrie , does it argue a lack of proper respect for my ancestors that I ca n't feel very enthusiastic over this heirloom -- especially when Grandmother Hunter died years before I was born ? '' `` It was very kind of Aunt Adella to send it , '' said Doris dutifully . `` Oh , very , '' agreed Penelope drolly . `` Only do n't ever ask me to sleep under it . It would give me the nightmare . O-o-h ! '' This last was a little squeal of admiration as Doris turned the quilt over and brought to view the shimmering lining . `` Why , the wrong side is ever so much prettier than the right ! ''
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