Jane Admires 



The sheepdog loves to sit on them with his head 

 hanging out of the window, watching the shadows 

 come and go, and listening to the carts going by 

 on the road. . . . 



Very often you can get a good effect by inver- 

 sion. When it came to furnishing the room, I 

 remembered that I had seen a black carpet in 

 Paris ; so the floor is painted white and the carpet 

 is black with a green rug in front of the fireplace ; 

 the curtains are green, with white cashmere inner 

 ones close to the window. When it was finished, 

 it still seemed to lack something. A piece of old 

 red tapestry was tried as a curtain at the end of 

 the bookcase, where there are still no books, and 

 has been a joy for ever. 



Jane has seen it ! . . . The convex window over 

 the fireplace, with the green net curtains and the 

 " Winged Victory," in miniature, striding through 

 them. The room was built over the extension of 

 the hall, the flat roof of which had originally been 

 left as leads under the windows of the passage. 

 These had to be blocked up, and the problem arose 

 how to light the passage and at the same time to 

 have a fireplace in the wall. Being a study, books 

 must occupy every available wall space there was. 

 The problem was easily solved by having the window 

 over the fireplace. . . . And the chimney ? It is 



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