"Something Alice sent you; shall we open it?"
"I made no answer; but it was opened, and he took out a sea-green and white velvet carpet, with a scarlet leaf on it, and a piece of sea-green and white brocade for curtains. Had she sought the world over, she could have found nothing to suit me so well.
"She thought that Verry might have a fancy for some of the old furniture, and that you would accept these in its place."
"There's nothing here to match this splendor, and I cannot bear to make a change. Verry must have them, for she took nothing from me."
"Just as you please."
CHAPTER XLI.
"What a hot day!" said Fanny. "Every door and window is open. There is not a breath of air."
"It will be calm all day," I said. "We have two or three days like this in a year. Give me another cup of coffee. Is it nine yet?"
"Nearly. I ought to go to Hepsey's to-day. She wont be able to leave her bed, the heat weakens her so."
"Do go. How still it is! The shadows of the trees on the Neck reach almost from shore to shore, and there's a fish-boat motionless."