courtyard and also opened by glazed doors into a garden behind the
house. They were long low apartments; the walls wainscoted and
panelled; the furniture of carved mahogany. The ceilings were
traversed through the length of the rooms by a large beam cased and
finished like the walls; and from the centre of each depended a
glass globe which reflected as in a convex mirror all surrounding
objects. There was a rich Persian carpet in the drawing-room, the
colors crimson and green. The curtains and the cushions of the
window-seat were of green damask; and oval mirrors and girandoles
and a teaset of rich china completed the furniture of that
apartment. The wide chimney-place in the dining room was lined and
ornamented with Dutch tiles; and on each side stood capacious
armchairs cushioned and covered with green damask, for the master
and mistress of the family. On the walls were portraits in crayon by
Copley, and valuable engravings representing Franklin with his
lightning rod, Washington, and other eminent men of the last
century. Between the windows hung a long mirror in a mahogany frame;
and opposite the fireplace was a buffet ornamented with porcelain
statuettes and a set of rich china. A large apartment in the second
story was devoted to a valuable library, a philosophical apparatus,
a collection of engravings, a solar microscope, a camera, etc."

As I read this description I seem to see the figure of our happy
little diary-writer reflected in the great glass globes that hung
from the summer-trees, while she danced on the Persian carpet, or
sat curled up reading on the cushioned window-seat.

NOTE 29.

As this was in the time of depreciated currency, L45 was not so
large a sum to spend for a young girl's outfit as would at first
sight appear.

NOTE 30.

Dr. Charles Chauncey was born January 1, 1705; died February 10,
1787. He graduated at Harvard in 1721, and soon became pastor of the
First Church in Boston. He was an equally active opponent of
Whitefield and of Episcopacy. He was an ardent and romantic patriot,
yet so plain in his ways and views that he wished _Paradise Lost_
might be turned into prose that he might understand it.

NOTE 31.

Rev. Ebenezer Pemberton was pastor of the New Brick Church. He had a
congregation of stanch Whigs; but unluckily, the Tory Governor
Hutchinson also attended his church. Dr. Pemberton was t