I've heard him say so." "It was dreadful, but, do you know, I designed a gown last winter in peacock blue like that paper, and it was a tremendous success.

Poor mother, I wish she could have seen it--peacock blue with an embossed border." "You may laugh about it now, but I don't believe your mother minded it much.

People in old times didn't let things get on their nerves the way they do to-day." She went indoors to attend to the dinner table; and as Gabriella turned back to the steps, she heard the gate slam and a man's voice exclaim heartily: "I'll see you about it to-morrow." Then a figure came rapidly up the walk--a large, free figure, with a buoyant swing, which awoke a trivial and fleeting association in her memory.

Without noticing her, the man stooped for an instant beside the rose-bush, plucked a bud, and held it to his nostrils as he turned to the steps.

His voice, singing a snatch of ragtime which she recognized without recalling the name of it, rang out, gay and powerful, as he approached her.
"I've seen him somewhere.