title: Beautifully Bold Faux Flowers: Fabulous Everlasting Arrangements to Brighten Up Your Home In Style
author:  Sylvia Hague 
description: Fabulous everlasting arrangements to brighten up your home in style<br /><br />
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  # The Story of Clifford House
  
  
  ### Anonymous
  
  
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  This story I will tell to you now, as I have promised to do so,
  
  
  and yet I can hardly make you believe in the reluctance with which I
  
  
  even allow my thoughts to go back to the time which I spent in that
  
  
  house—my first town residence after I was married.
  
  
  I had wished so much to go to town that spring—grown tired of my
  
  
  lovely country home, I suppose. Tired of wide lawns and quiet, glassy
  
  
  ponds and streams, bordered by luscious, blooming rhododendrons; of
  
  
  silent, mossy avenues, glorious with the flickering light that stole
  
  
  through pale green beech leaves; of rose gardens with grassy paths,
  
  
  jewel-sprinkled with shell-like petals of white, crimson, pink, and
  
  
  cream-like hues; of old-fashioned rooms with narrow, mullioned windows
  
  
  embowered in scarlet japonica and fragrant, starry jessamine.
  
  