. The happy garden . ely green is faded blue ! Well, then, the chest of drawers in the dressing-room is Queen Anne, those in the bedroom Shera-ton, also the wardrobe. Queen Anne, of course,must object to the Italian element, but it broadensher mind, and helps her to shake off the Churchillinfluence. She took it all so seriously at first—^asseriously as the people for whom modern touristItaly was invented—^that the room was in dangerof becoming a little sombre. However, that littlegay cushion on the chair there, and the chintz-covered box—^in which are kept oddments of everydescription—dismisse
. The happy garden . ely green is faded blue ! Well, then, the chest of drawers in the dressing-room is Queen Anne, those in the bedroom Shera-ton, also the wardrobe. Queen Anne, of course,must object to the Italian element, but it broadensher mind, and helps her to shake off the Churchillinfluence. She took it all so seriously at first—^asseriously as the people for whom modern touristItaly was invented—^that the room was in dangerof becoming a little sombre. However, that littlegay cushion on the chair there, and the chintz-covered box—^in which are kept oddments of everydescription—dismissed Culture for ever. There remains one gap to be repaired. One of43 The Happy Garden the four great Ghirlandajo frescoes is missing, andthe reproduction of the Venus di Milo is so badthat some day I shall smash her, and when nextI visit the Louvre I shall tell the Goddess ofBeauty, and she will thank me for seeing to it thatthere is in the world one less of the million, milUonoffences committed in her name. 44. Friends, dardcn,<S perhaps his pen, *-^ Delightful industry enjoyed at home, Ana nature in her cultivated trim Dressed to his taste,invitin<J him abroad— ^ Can he want occupation who has these? &^wperi%sk. 0C
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