[The Financier by Theodore Dreiser]@TWC D-Link bookThe Financier CHAPTER X 3/23
A bay-window could be built to replace the two present oblong windows--a bay which would come down to the floor and open out on the lawn via swiveled, diamond-shaped, lead-paned frames.
All this shabby, nondescript furniture, collected from heaven knows where--partly inherited from the Semples and the Wiggins and partly bought--could be thrown out or sold and something better and more harmonious introduced. He knew a young man by the name of Ellsworth, an architect newly graduated from a local school, with whom he had struck up an interesting friendship--one of those inexplicable inclinations of temperament. Wilton Ellsworth was an artist in spirit, quiet, meditative, refined. From discussing the quality of a certain building on Chestnut Street which was then being erected, and which Ellsworth pronounced atrocious, they had fallen to discussing art in general, or the lack of it, in America.
And it occurred to him that Ellsworth was the man to carry out his decorative views to a nicety.
When he suggested the young man to Lillian, she placidly agreed with him and also with his own ideas of how the house could be revised. So while they were gone on their honeymoon Ellsworth began the revision on an estimated cost of three thousand dollars, including the furniture. It was not completed for nearly three weeks after their return; but when finished made a comparatively new house.
The dining-room bay hung low over the grass, as Frank wished, and the windows were diamond-paned and leaded, swiveled on brass rods.
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