2/36 You may bring the azaleas upstairs. Take the white one to Mr. Put the two pink ones in this room, and the red one in the drawing-room." A little before three o'clock Mrs.Alexander went into the library to see that everything was ready. She pulled the window shades high, for the weather was dark and stormy, and there was little light, even in the streets. A foot of snow had fallen during the morning, and the wide space over the river was thick with flying flakes that fell and wreathed the masses of floating ice. |