After working with it for some time, I gave up the search, and my enthusiasm in this direction soon died out.

I smiled to myself many times afterwards, in thinking of the idle fancy which for a time possessed me.
In May, the furnishing of the renovated house began.

This took nearly a month.

Every thing was brought from New York.

Car loads of enormous boxes, bales, and articles not made up into packages, were constantly arriving at the depot, and being conveyed to the Allen House--the designation which the property retains even to this day.