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learning standing brave and fair on the hillside in the morning
sunshine. "Because there are plenty more colleges," said Leslie; "but
there is only one home for us, and I believe we've found it, if it
looks half as pretty in the daylight as it did at night."

It took only a few minutes to find the agent and get the key of the
house, and presently they were standing on the terrace gazing with
delight at the house.

It was indeed a lovely little dwelling. It was built of stone, and
then painted white, but the roof and gables were tiled with great pink
tiles, giving an odd little foreign look to it, something like Anne
Hathaway's cottage in general contour, Leslie declared.

The top of the terrace was pink-tiled, too, and all the porches were
paved with tiles. The house itself seemed filled with windows all
around. Allison unlocked the door, and they exclaimed with pleasure as
he threw it wide open and they stepped in. The sunshine was flooding
the great living-room from every direction, it seemed. To begin with,
the room was very large, and gave the effect of being a sun-parlor
because of its white panelled walls and its many windows. Straight
across from the front door on the opposite side of the room opened a
small hallway or passage with stairs leading up to a platform where
more windows shed a beautiful light down the stairs on walls papered
with strange tropical birds in delicate old-fashioned tracery.

To the right through a wide white arch from the living-room was a
charming white dining-room with little, high, leaded-paned windows
over the spot for the sideboard and long windows in front.

To the left was an enormous stone fireplace with high mantel-shelf of
stone and the chimney above. The fire-opening was wide enough for an
old Yule log, and on either side of it were double glass doors opening
into a long porch room, which also had a fireplace on the opposite
side of the chimney, and was completely shut in by long casement
windows.

Up-stairs there were four large bedrooms and a little hall room that
could be used for a sewing-room or den, or an extra bedroom, besides a
neat little maid's room in a notch on the half-way landing, and two
bathrooms, white-tiled and delightful, tucked away in between things.
Then Leslie opened a glass door in the very prettiest room of all,
which she and Allison immediately decided must belong to their aunt,
and exclaimed in delight; for here nestled between the gables, wi