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Green dimity curtains hung over the windows in Theodora’s room, the wallpaper was decked with green garlands, the bedspread and quilt were green, the marble-topped dresser and the huge wardrobe were the same.

Her dress seemed to be of cambric or dimity, and from Mary's description, was that worn by ladies in the seventeenth century.

So that, gazing upward at the faded dimity of her tester, she longed to play her part in it.

—Except dimity,—replied my father:——’Tis best of all,—replied my mother.

Before her arose a vision of a renovated Rectory—a sort of dimity Palace Beautiful—with an enlarged kitchen-boiler, new carpets, and an extra servant.