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asked Gilbert , trying to preserve some dignity under the storekeeper 's attacks . `` I 'd like to take some measurements and make some sketches of the rooms for my mother . '' `` All right , '' the Colonel responded . `` Your train does n't go till two o'clock . I 'll give you a bite of lunch and take you to the station . '' If Mother Carey had watched Gilbert during the next half-hour she would have been gratified , for every moment of the time he grew more and more into the likeness of the head of a family . He looked at the cellar , at the shed , at the closets and cupboards all over the house , and at the fireplaces .