This was drawn, discovering an ottoman near the entrance, and an elegant harp.
The whole structure presented the _coup-d'oeil_ of a huge birdcage, with its wires of gold! The grounds were in keeping with the house.

In these, the evidence of neglect, which had been noticed without, existed no longer.

Every object appeared to be under the training of a watchful solicitude.
A thick grove of olives, with their gnarled and spreading branches and dark-green leaves, stretched rearward, forming a background to the picture.

Right and left grew clumps of orange and lime trees.

Golden fruit and flowers of brilliant hues mingled with their yellow leaves; spring and autumn blended upon the same branches! Rare shrubs--exotics--grew out of large vessels of japanned earthenware, whose brilliant tints added to the voluptuous colouring of the scene.
A _jet d'eau_, crystalline, rose to the height of twenty feet, and, returning in a shower of prismatic globules, stole away through a bed of water-lilies and other aquatic plants, losing itself in a grove of lofty plantain-trees.