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Important to Those 
Who Expect to Build 
When Planning to Build, get 
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regarding best design, proper 
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from the several hundred designs 
beautifully illustrated in six 
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Long before that, the motor had given 
up its freight, which resolved itself into 
American Beauties with cloth-yard stems, 
azaleas positively loaded with blossoms, 
lilies of price, tall, heavy-headed hyacinths, 
bride roses, carnations, stephanotis, vio¬ 
lets purple and white, gardenias, lilies of 
the valley. Anna’s special charge turned 
out to be a basket crammed with orchids, 
white and gold as was the basket itself. 
There was also a box of purple and laven¬ 
der-shaded ones, set delicately in scented 
lacy green. Rarely beautiful all — Nancy 
took joy in them. But none was half so 
beautiful as the commonplace yellow tele¬ 
gram. 
Jack was after a sort her boy — she had 
mothered and fondled him like her own. 
His squanderings, his going away, had 
been the grief of her life. Now he was 
coming home — he had made good; she 
looked at Mary, wondering how she could 
be so calm. They had been sweethearts, 
of that she was certain. But she could 
not speculate over things — the flowers 
cried out for place. “The parlor’s waiting 
for them,” Diana said joyously. Mary 
March added loftily: “And I’m going to 
get that Sheffield basket — don’t care if it 
is an heirloom. I want to see these,” 
touching the purple orchids; “fill it, and 
put out of countenance that giddy gild-y 
bunch.” 
It did seem providential — the one space 
bare which fitted such flowers. For the 
parlor marked high tide in Talbot pros¬ 
perity — it had been new-fitted out just at 
the breaking of the Civil War. There was 
brocade on the walls, beautifully soft and 
faded now, a white marble mantel so richly 
carved, Tex said: “Hit looked des like er 
tombstone,” a huge soft-toned Turkey car¬ 
pet laid loose on the floor, tall gilt-framed 
mirrors, console tables, rosewood furniture 
upholstered in brocatelle specially imported 
and faded like the walls, bronze chande¬ 
liers with tinkly crystal pendants, and, in¬ 
stead of a piano, a gilded harp. There 
was but one picture—a portrait of the 
Major’s mother, in her wedding gown, 
leaning upon the harp. Cole, who painted 
it, said he had never had a lovelier model, 
nor one who fell more naturally into per¬ 
fect poses. Nancy had a remote strain of 
the lady’s blood — also in some moods her 
very look. Almost shyly, she set the bas¬ 
ket of orchids in front of the portrait, say¬ 
ing low to her husband: “She must have — 
the best of everything.” 
The room, square and lofty, with tall 
windows sheerly curtained, had been 
severely beautiful in its bareness. With 
roses all about, with azaleas nodding at 
themselves in the tall mirrors, with smilax 
draped over chandeliers and mantel, and 
making cornices to the curtain, it became 
a place of dreams, especially after the car¬ 
nations spiced the air, their pungent tang 
accenting the breath of the many roses. 
Nancy set the tall roses in straight crystal 
holders all about the floor. She did not 
•crowd them — no more than half-a-dozen 
went into anything. The very choicest 
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