. Mark Twain : a biography : the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens . rfume in the delicate accents of its variedblossoms. In the library was an old carved mantel which Clemensand his wife had bought in Scotland, salvage from a dis-mantled castle, and across the top of the fireplace aplate of brass with the motto, The ornament of a houseis the friends that frequent it, surely never more ap-propriately inscribed. There was the mahogany room, a large bedroom onthe ground floor, and up-stairs were other spacious bed-rooms and many baths, while everywhere were Orientalrugs and
. Mark Twain : a biography : the personal and literary life of Samuel Langhorne Clemens . rfume in the delicate accents of its variedblossoms. In the library was an old carved mantel which Clemensand his wife had bought in Scotland, salvage from a dis-mantled castle, and across the top of the fireplace aplate of brass with the motto, The ornament of a houseis the friends that frequent it, surely never more ap-propriately inscribed. There was the mahogany room, a large bedroom onthe ground floor, and up-stairs were other spacious bed-rooms and many baths, while everywhere were Orientalrugs and draperies, and statuary and paintings. Therewas a fireplace under a window, after the English pattern,so that in winter-time one could at the same momentwatch the blaze and the falling snow. The library win-dows looked out over the valley with the little stream in it,and through and across the tree-tops. At the top of thehouse was what became Clemenss favorite retreat, thebilliard-room, and here and there were unexpected littlebalconies, which one could step out upon for the view. 522. THE NEW HOUSE IN HARTFORD
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