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Updated: May 17, 2025
She had herself superintended the arrangement of the beautiful flowers for which the Galbraiths' garden was famous, and she had, in a moment of victory, persuaded Mona to put the men servants into white duck instead of their ornate, gilt-braided livery, and the maids into white linen uniforms.
Like some fantastic sculpture from an Amazonian triumph, they crossed the long drawing-room, the erect, gilt-braided general preceding, very slowly, the white-clad feminine creature, who held one hand extended, with something boring almost into his shoulder blades. He did not lead her down the long stairs, past the guarding eunuch.
The craft was owned by John Hancock and had surreptitiously landed a cargo of wine without paying duty. When the ship of Boston's chief citizen was seized by the bumptious, gilt-braided British officials, there was a merry uproar.
At his right, beyond a window, mounted a tall, austere secretary in waxed walnut; and behind him, under the white chair rail, bookcases extended across the width of the room. Gustavus Hesselius' portrait of the first Howat Penny hung on a yellow painted wall, his gilt-braided major's facings still vivid, his dark, perceptible scorn undimmed. Jaffa.
Andy offered to split him some fresh wood, but received only an ungracious: "Get out! No trespassers allowed here." Andy wandered about for a long time. He greatly envied a lad about his own age who, adorned with a gilt-braided jacket, was walking a beautiful Arabian steed up and down.
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