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"Haven't I tole ye about Phil, Miss Rachel?" "I don't know. I don't think you have. But come down to my room, Joe, and then I can listen to your story." Giving a few more directions, Miss Rachel led the way to a lovely sunny room, with flower-baskets in the windows, soft blue draperies, and delicate appointments.
'Now, ran a pretty article on spring fashions, 'the sunshine makes bright the streets, and the flower-baskets, like huge bouquets, announce the gay arrival of spring. I looked up and out through my hillside window.
Elaborate preparations had been made for the reception. An arch of green boughs at the top of which gleamed the word "Vivat" in yellow roses spanned the road, on either side of which were ranged twelve little girls in white, with flower-baskets in their hands.
They were painted in a shield about as big as my hat, on a smart chariot handsomely gilded, surmounted with a coronet, and supported by eight or nine Cupids, cornucopias, and flower-baskets, according to the queer heraldic fashion of those days. It must be he! I felt quite feint as I went up the stairs. I was going to present myself before my uncle in the character of a servant!
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