Mr.Allen professed great admiration for it, to her wonderment.

There was also a fine, old, gold-framed mirror, and some china vases on the mantel-shelf.

Sylvia was rather ashamed of them.

Mrs.Jim Jones had a mirror which she had earned by selling Calkin's soap, which Sylvia considered much handsomer.

She would have had ambitions in that direction also, but Henry was firm in his resolve not to have the mirror displaced, nor the vases, although Sylvia descanted upon the superior merits of some vases with gilded pedestals which Mrs.Sam Elliot had in her parlor.
Meeks regarded the superb old table with appreciation as he sat in the sitting-room after supper.