The grounds about her home were beautiful. The stable itself was half again as large as her old home opposite St. James’s, and the conservatory, in which she took the keenest delight, was a wonderful affair⁠—a vast bubble-like structure of green panes, whence, winter and summer, came a multitude of flowers for the house⁠—violets, lilies of the valley, jonquils, hyacinths, tulips, and her own loved roses.

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