CHAPTER XX

BREAKING UP Pollyanna was breaking up house-keeping. Of all sights which suggest desolation, with the sole exception, possibly, of flame-gutted homes, standing in ruins, the most dreary is a house dismantled for moving. The pictures which gave pleasure to the eye have disappeared from the walls, leaving discolored spots, rectangular or oval as the case may be, brighter than the surrounding surface. Innumerable nondescript articles, counting so little individually, but contributing in their entirety so much to the c…