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"Red marble shall not ease the heartache. " / "Why should I rear me halls of rare / Design, on proud shafts mounting high? / Why bid my Sabine vale good-bye / For doubled wealth and care? " / -- C. S. CALVERLEY.
There was, however, much in Melicent's new position which was irksome, and to her inexperience, wholly unexpected. She had not foreseen that the event would make a stir in the county, and bring her into a prominence much accented by the fact that she was a qualified architect, now occupied in building a gentleman's country-seat.