He then returned to Boston, hired an upright piano and purchased the
other articles, including a comfortable office-chair to go with the
desk. He was so afraid that he would forget some article of stationery
that he made a list and checked it off. But this did not satisfy him.
He spent a whole morning in different stationery stores looking over
their stocks to make sure that he had omitted nothing. The goods were
packed and shipped by express to Mrs. Thomas Gibson, Nantucket, Mass.
Then, and not till then, did Quincy seek his aunt's residence with the
intelligence that the nest was builded and ready for the birds. When he
informed the ladies that everything was ready for their reception at
their summer home, Aunt Ella said that their departure would have to be
delayed for a few days, as the delinquent dressmakers had failed to
deliver certain articles of wearing apparel. This argument was, of
course, unanswerable, and Quincy devoted the time to visiting the
wholesale grocers, as he had promised Strout that he would do, and to
buying and shipping a long list of books that Miss Very informed him
Miss Pettengill needed for her work.
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