Anna assented to that, and said she would try to spare the money.

Rose could make the carpets, and that would save a little.
"I wish, too, mother," she added, "that you would let her arrange the rooms altogether.

She has exquisite taste, besides the faculty of making the most of things.

Our house never looked so well as it has since she came.

Somehow Eudora and Asenath have such a stiff set way of putting the furniture." So it was Anna who selected the tasteful carpet for 'Lina's boudoir, and the bedchamber beyond it, but it was Adah who made it, Adah who, with Willie playing on the floor, bent so patiently over the heavy fabric, sometimes wiping away the bitter tears as she thought of the days preceding her own bridal, and of her happiness, even though no fingers were busy for her in the home where they were too proud to receive her.
Where was that home?
Was it North or South, East or West, and what was it like?
She had no idea, though, sometimes fancy had whispered that it might have been like Terrace Hill, that George's haughty mother, who had threatened to turn her from the door, was a second Mrs.Richards, and then an involuntary prayer of thanksgiving escaped her lips for the trial she had escaped.
Frequently doubts crossed her mind as to the future, when it might be known that she came from Spring Bank, and knew the expected bride.