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What constitutes a good site is well illustrated by one of the existing American rock gardens. The place is large, and in the rear of the house the grounds are level for a considerable distance and then drop with a fairly steep bank to a driveway, below which another terrace leads to a meadow.
"I have." "Where? At Dalton? Is she at Dalton still?" "She is not." Edith's countenance, which had flushed with hope, now fell at this. It looked as though Miss Plympton had gone away too hastily. "Where did you see her?" she asked, in a low voice, trying to conceal her agitation. "At Plympton Terrace," said Wiggins.
A hedge of currant-bushes, the only safeguard against a terrible fall, forms a parapet above the next terrace. When our parents' watchful eyes are off us, we lie flat on our stomachs, my brother and I, and look into the abyss at the foot of the wall bulging under the thrust of the land. It is the garden of monsieur le notaire.
Only when he reached the terrace did he seem aware of her presence, and joined her with an exclamation of surprise, "You Gillian?" "I couldn't sleep it was so hot the garden tempted me," she faltered, in sudden fear lest he might think she spied on him. But the fascination of the night was to Craven too natural to evoke comment.
Carrie made a most hearty supper, for which I was pleased; for I sometimes think she is not strong. There was scarcely a dish she did not taste. I was so thirsty, I could not eat much. Receiving a sharp slap on the shoulder, I turned, and, to my amazement, saw Farmerson, our ironmonger. He said, in the most familiar way: "This is better than Brickfield Terrace, eh?"
The young men who had been in the habit of exchanging noisy jests with Ida had mostly drifted away in different directions or sobered down; girl companions had married off; and a new terrace had been completed with inhabitants and sojourners of a somewhat higher grade, who accepted Mrs. and Miss Morton as well connected. Mr. Rollstone's lodgings were let to Mr.
"At the inquest yes, yes! Poor Rosario!" He watched the smoke from his cigar curl up to the ceiling. Then he turned to some papers on his table. "Get your desk in, Chetwode," he ordered, "and then take down some letters. The American mail goes early this afternoon." Arnold swung around the corner of the terrace that evening with footsteps still eager notwithstanding his long walk.
But the evil genii, as aforesaid, had reserved a still more cruel accident than any before; for a dog, whose master lived hard by, seeing these strange wild fowl of a pair of shoes, jumped from one terrace to the other, till he came to the miser's, and began to play with one of them: in his sport he dropped it over the balustrade, and it fell, heavy with hobnails and the accumulated dirt of years, on the tender head of an infant, and killed him on the spot.
Besides, he would miss the sham bull-fight for which the trumpet was already sounding, to say nothing of the puppet-show and the other wonderful things. Her uncle and the Grand Inquisitor were much more sensible. They had come out on the terrace, and paid her nice compliments.
Thank you, Mrs. Vincent." A few moments later Helen and her cousin left the house but not by the door giving upon the terrace. The side door answered far better. Then slipping around the house they paused beneath Stella's balcony and the cousin gave a low whistle. Instantly, Lily Pearl's head was bobbed up over the railing and she whispered: "Oh, take it quick!
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