you will enjoy it. It will not only be a great economy in a
pecuniary way, but society is very exacting, and a large house
entails heavy social burdens which you will escape while living
in a cottage. This will give you plenty of time to improve your
taste in art, which is indispensable at present. There will be
great economy, too, in the matter of furniture. A large house
_must_ be furnished according to prevailing fashions, but in a
small one you may indulge any unconventional, artistic fancy
you please.'"

"If Aunt Melville's advice and plans could be applied where they are
needed they would be extremely valuable. Suppose we found a society and
present them to it for gratuitous distribution."

"We can't spare them yet; we shall not use them, but it is well to hear
all sides of a question."




CHAPTER VII.

TRUTH, POETRY AND ROOFS.


"How the wind does blow!" said Jill, as she laid aside Aunt Melville's
latest, and Jack laid another log into the open stove. "It is a genuine
'gale from the northeast.'"

"So it is, and that reminds me," Jack exclaimed, jumping up, "that a