114 GLENOWEN, OR THE

of fruits and flowers. The walls were
covered with pictures and reflecting
mirrors, whilst awnings of pale green
silk diffused a softened light, through
windows descending to the ground, and
opening into a shrubbery, leading to a
smooth extensive lawn, and ornamented
above and below with drapery of Chi-
nese silk.

Stands of flowers, intermingled with
Indian vases, containing the most deli,
cious sweets, filled the room with odours,
and perfumed the breath of the zephyr,
as it sported amid the shrubs and plants
that waved about the windows, which
opened as doors, and formed an entrance

into the shrubbery.

Scarcely had our orphans time to ex-
press