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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Miss Let1t1a's house, her great big house, as Mrs. D'Arcy-Muir had expansively described it to Boy, was situated on the sunniest side of Hans Place. It was tastefully built, and all the window- ledges had floral boxes delightfully arranged, with flowers growing in pots and hanging baskets, over which, on warm bright days, spacious crimson- and-white awnings stretched forth their protective shade, giving the house-front quite a gay and foreign effect. The door was white, and a highly polished brass knocker glinted in the sunshine with an almost knowing wink, as much as to say, Use me, And you shall see, Hospitalitee! When Miss Letty's brougham drove up, however, this same knowing knocker was not called into requisition, for the butler had heard the approaching wheels and had seen the approaching trotting roans through a little spy-window of his own in the hall, so that before Miss Letty had stepped from the vehicle and had jumped her small visitor out also, the door was opened and the butler himself stood, a sedate figure of civil welcome, on the threshold. Without betraying himself by so much as a profane smile, this dignitary of the household accepted the cow and the brown paper parcel which constituted all Boy's belongings. He took them, so to speak, to his manly bosom, and then, waving away the carriage, coachman, footman, and horses with a slight yet stately gesture, he shut the house door and followed his lady and the young gentleman through the hall into a room which beamed with light, warmth, and elegance, ?Miss Letty's morning-room, or boudoir, ?where, with undisturbed serenity, he set the cow on the table between a cabinet portrait of Mr. Balfour and a small bronze statuette of Mercury. The cow looked rather out of place there, but it did not m...