Every blooming thing she had brought from "The Cedars" the day before had taken its own place in the room, and looked as at home as it had looked in the fields.

One of Mercy's great gifts was the gift of creating in rooms a certain look which it is hard to define.

The phrase "vitalized individuality," perhaps, would come as near describing it as is possible; for it was not merely that the rooms looked unlike other rooms.

Every article in them seemed to stand in the place where it must needs stand by virtue of its use and its quality.

Every thing had a certain sort of dramatic fitness, without in the least trenching on the theatrical.