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CHAPTER VII. AT HOME. The house in which lived the maiden rescued
by Jonas stood on a small hill or large mound, and was, as may be
remembered, in the northeast corner of the city. It fronted
westward. Immense walnuts rose and overshadowed it on the south
side; poplars on the north side met the branches of the walnuts.
When the sun was at the zenith, only small clots of light
penetrated through the leaves to the roof; but the front of the
pretty building glowed brightly (notwithstanding two large
weeping-willows which stood on either side of the door) as soon as
the sun hung with diminished power over the gorge of the Abana. On
all sides, bright green turf gently descended, and dainty flowers,
like stars, shone in it, here a Milky Way, there a Pleiad group.
Each corner of the house was covered with sweet-scented jessamine.
At the foot of the declivity were airy- looking acacias, and clumps
of violets, gladioluses, poppies, amaranths, lilies, acanthuses,
narcissuses, hyacinths, irises, crocuses, rhododendrons, and many
other flowers, native and exotic; and grape-vines were clambering
over oleanders. Further off in the garden grew figs, the
purple-tinted pomegranate, mulberries, apples, apricots, and
graceful palms. The long arbor supported grape-vines and various
thicklyintertwined flowering creepers. Its ceiling was of beautiful
trailing roses. Midway between the arbor and the portico, which was
granite, red and gray, half hidden in jessamine, played a fountain
exquisitely carved of white marble with blue streaks in it like
those on the maiden's forehead. The spray of this fountain was
almost invisible, and so light that but little of it fell until the
air had borne it to the distant flowers and trees, filling the
whole garden with delicious coolness. A couple of negl...
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