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He had silenced any doubting Thomases by his latest effort, a new school-house, rich in rampant angles and scrolls, on the brown-stone front of which the name Flagg School appeared in ambitious, distorted hieroglyphics. Think what a wealth of imagery in the tossing of the second O on top of the L. If artistic novelty and genius were sought for the new church, here it was ready to be invoked.
And all the while her aunt held her hand, and Beatrice and Eleanor talked as fast as their tongues could wag. Then the taxi clattered on up the Avenue, to turn down a side street and presently stop at Carley's home. It was a modest three-story brown-stone house. Carley had been so benumbed by sensations that she did not imagine she could experience a new one.
And forthwith all care as to ways and means was thrown from both their minds, and they gave themselves up to an evening of enjoyment of the comforts of their brown-stone mansion. While Virginia was resting her husband went out for a little shopping to be done with part of the fifty cents they had allowed themselves for spending money.
Rand staggered back against the newel-post of a brown-stone stoop, and stood there gazing wildly into Holmes's face. "Of course, if you prefer having the facts made known in that way," Holmes continued, coolly, "you have the option. I am not going to use physical force to persuade you to hand the package over to me, but you are a greater fool than I take you for if you choose that alternative.
On the wide broken ledge just beneath her pinnacle was the concrete evidence of an architectural orgy to be seen nowhere else on earth: wooden mansions with the pure outlines of the Renaissance; a Gothic palace with bow-windows, also of wood; a big brown-stone house in the style of New York; piles of shingles and stones; here and there a touch of Romanesque, later French, and Italian; the majority of those plutocratic and perishable masses, of no style in particular, unless it were that of Mansard combined with the criminalities of him who invented the bow-window and the irrelevant tower.
Crabb, for my familiarity. That was intended for Hector." "I am ready to be classed with Hector," said Mr. Crabb. "I am glad to hear you say so. I was afraid you would be stiff and dignified." "I think I shall take my cue from you." "Oh, my rule is, go as you please. Edward, drive home!" The house occupied by Mr. Boss was a fine brown-stone dwelling on Forty-second Street. Arrived there, Mr.
Makely to tell me, for, as she said quite frankly, she could not imagine my not knowing. She asked me if I really wanted her to begin at the beginning, and, when I said that I did, she took a little more time to laugh at the idea, and then she said, "I suppose you mean a brown-stone, four-story house in the middle of a block?" "Yes, I think that is what I mean," I said.
"But I wonder if there are any poor churches in the city!" They stopped in front of one brown-stone structure that looked a trifle less elaborate. "It says Presbyterian," said Corydon, reading the sign. "I wonder how they do it." "I don't know," said he. "But he'd want a lot of money, I'm sure." "But mightn't he have a curate, or something?"
"Oh, yes, of course!" replied Anne, anxiously turning to Barbara. Eleanor took the initiative of going toward the door. "I never saw such a darling bungalow! I just love everything spread out on the ground floor. No stairs and no elevators Oh, how nice!" "It is a change from your brown-stone mansions, isn't it?" replied Mrs. Brewster, smiling at the concerned face.
These things are all very well for the house that has a small dining-room and a gala dining-room for formal occasions as well, but there are few such houses. We New Yorkers have been so accustomed to the gloomy basement dining-rooms of the conventional brown-stone houses of the late eighties we forgot how nice a dining-room can be.
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