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Ross notes the winter excursions to Florida and California, the adornment of the homes, and many other evidences of a social progress developing a character of its own.
This was more loss to Sepia than she knew, for Mary would have assisted her in doing the best when she had no money, a condition which often made it the more trying that she had now so little influence over her cousin's adornment.
The supply of water, and the construction of drinking-troughs. The laying-out and adornment of public squares and other open spaces. The establishment of a system of sewerage or sanitary drainage, including the removal of excessive soil moisture. No one thing has more to do with the comfort of those living in country villages than sidewalks which are good at all seasons of the year.
From so unpromising a beginning has grown the present rich and flourishing settlement, and in lieu of the few temporary shanties erected by the first colonists there stands a magnificent city of more than ordinarily fine architecture, with banks and hospitals, schools and churches among the latter a superb cathedral all displaying the proverbial prodigality of labor and expense for which the English are noted in the erection and adornment of their public edifices.
But in many particulars as to style of living and modes of social intercourse, there can be no definite rules laid down, and no Christian can venture to judge another by his standard. One Christian condemns dress adornment, and the whole application of taste to the usages of life, as a sinful waste of time and money.
Our conversation then gradually drifted into ordinary topics till towards sunset, when I went down to my cabin to dress for dinner. I had a fancy to wear the bunch of pink bell-heather that still kept its fresh and waxen-looking delicacy of bloom, and this, fastened in the lace of my white gown, was my only adornment.
She opened the inner door, and Max found himself in a bedroom, plain in furniture and without adornment, but possessing a large window, the full light from which was falling with pathetic vividness on the shrunken figure and wan, expressionless face of a very old man who sat huddled in a shabby leathern arm-chair.
Henrietta's husband, when he heard the money wouldn't all be spent for mere food, said he'd put up a choice lot in Price's Addition to be raffled off a lot that would at some future date be worth five thousand dollars of anybody's money, and that was all right; and some of the merchants come through liberal with articles of use and adornment to be took chances on.
King Charming then asked it there was not another Princess, called Fiordelisa. 'Yes, said Turritella, pointing with her finger, 'there she is, trying to keep out of sight because she is not smart. At this Fiordelisa blushed, and looked so shy and so lovely, that the King was fairly astonished. He rose, and bowing low before her, said 'Madam, your incomparable beauty needs no adornment.
In the porch she found a crowd of little girls, all more or less gaily attired in whites and blues and pinks, and all staring with curious eyes at this stranger in their midst, with her extraordinary head adornment. Avonlea little girls had already heard queer stories about Anne. Mrs.
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