Tom had never seen the like . He had never been in gentlefolks ' rooms but when the carpets were all up , and the curtains down , and the furniture huddled together under a cloth , and the pictures covered with aprons and dusters ; and he had often enough wondered what the rooms were like when they were all ready for the quality to sit in . And now he saw , and he thought the sight very pretty . The room was all dressed in white , -- white window-curtains , white bed-curtains , white furniture , and white walls , with just a few lines of pink here and there . The carpet was all over gay little flowers ; and the walls were hung with pictures in gilt frames , which amused Tom very much . There were pictures of ladies and gentlemen , and pictures of horses and dogs . The horses he liked ; but the dogs he did not care for much , for there were no bull-dogs among them , not even a terrier . But the two pictures which took his fancy most were , one a man in long garments , with little children and their mothers round him , who was laying his hand upon the children 's heads . That was a very pretty picture , Tom thought , to hang in a lady 's room . For he could see that it was a lady 's room by the dresses which lay about . The other picture was that of a man nailed to a cross , which surprised Tom much . He fancied that he had seen something like it in a shop-window . But why was it there ? `` Poor man , '' thought Tom , `` and he looks so kind and quiet . But why should the lady have such a sad picture as that in her room ? Perhaps it was some kinsman of hers , who had been murdered by the savages in foreign parts , and she kept it there for a remembrance . '' And Tom felt sad , and awed , and turned to look at something else . The next thing he saw , and that too puzzled him , was a washing - stand , with ewers and basins , and soap and brushes , and towels , and a large bath full of clean water -- what a heap of things all for washing ! `` She must be a very dirty lady , '' thought Tom , `` by my master 's rule , to want as much scrubbing as all that . But she must be very cunning to put the dirt out of the way so well afterwards , for I do n't see a speck about the room , not even on the very towels . ''
And then , looking toward the bed , he saw XXXXX dirty lady , and held his breath with astonishment .
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