"You see, papa, it's a gorgeous flower-pattern," said Jennie.
"Well, Marianne, how many yards of this wonderfully cheap carpet do you want?"
"We want sixty yards for both rooms," said Jennie, always primed with statistics.
"That will be a hundred and twenty dollars," I said.
"Yes," said Jennie; "and we went over the figures together, and thought we could make it out by economizing in other things. Aunt Easygo said that the carpet was half the battle,—that it gave the air to everything else."
"Well, Marianne, if you want a man's advice in the case, mine is at your service."
"That is just what I want, papa."
"Well, then, my dear, choose your wall-papers and borderings, and, when they are up, choose an ingrain carpet to harmonize with them, and adapt your furniture to the same idea. The sixty dollars that you save on your carpet spend on engravings, chromo-lithographs, or photographs of some really good works of Art, to adorn your walls."
"Papa, I'll do it," said Marianne.