← They tiptoed from room to room, afraid to speak above a whisper and gazing with a kind of awe at the unbelievable luxury, at the beds with their feather mattresses, the looking−glasses, the horsehair sofa, the Brussels carpet, the lithograph of Queen Victoria over the drawing−room mantelpiece. 🔊
← A cry of lamentation went up. Straw was laid down outside the doors of the farmhouse, and the animals walked on tiptoe. 🔊
← They tiptoed up to the house, and such animals as were tall enough peered in at the dining−room window. 🔊