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Now she saw the lights twinkling in the farm-house, and quickening her pace, she fairly ran through lane and barnyard, and finally burst into the kitchen, breathless and exhausted, but radiant. The farmer and his wife, who were sitting with disturbed and anxious looks, rose hastily as she entered. "Oh, Hilda, dear!" cried Dame Hartley, "we have been terribly frightened about you.
Any humble place will do; I am accustomed to rough it; besides, it suits my finances: half-pay to a sickly invalid is hard enough you understand?" "I do." "Still, if I could only get health! I have been told that this part of the country is very favorable to people with delicate lungs. Perhaps I might meet with some farm-house lodging?"
With one hand clasped in his, and the other resting with her head on his shoulder, Antonina listened attentively to the alternate rising and falling of the wind. Her beauty had grown fresher and more woman-like during her sojourn at the farm-house. Cheerfulness and hope seemed to have gained at length all the share in her being assigned to them by nature at her birth.
"Do you see that old yellow farm-house that looks like a church in Chinese mourning." "Yes." "Well but it will be a great deal of trouble." "Trouble!" cried Rose. "Don't talk about trouble. Do you want me to go to that farm-house!" "If you will be so kind. I stopped there last night. Tell old Jacques that's the proprietor to send some kind of a trap down here for me a sled, if nothing else."
At night I ventured to a farm-house, and having a club with me, I knocked over two barn fowl, and took them to my place in the woods; I struck a light with the tinder, made a fire of brushwood, roasted them before the fire, and enjoyed a hearty meal without seasoning or bread.
There was something indescribably simple, touching, and eloquent in the very positions of Hermanric and Antonina as they now sat together the only members of their respective nations who were united in affection and peace in the lonely farm-house.
Now the farm that supplied the milk was away at the other end of the village, quite half a mile, and I went to meet her, but did not see her until I had walked the whole distance, when just as I arrived at the gate she came out of the farm-house burdened with a basket of things in one hand and a can of milk in the other.
As we turned into the farm where my father was concealed, I saw men lurking here and there, on guard, about the grounds. The house was an old-fashioned adobe farm-house; the windows were all dark; we entered through the kitchen. And I entered, let me say, with the sense that I was about to come before one of the most able among men.
Dame Tibbets had long been on intimate gossiping terms with the housekeeper, who often visited the farm-house; but when the neighbours spoke to her of the likelihood of a match between her son and Phoebe Wilkins, "Marry come up!" she scouted the very idea.
How differently, for instance, the farm-house and its group must have appeared, but for the evident pride and hopes centred in nos Parisiens, who knows? perhaps youths destined to attain the first rank in official or political callings! The farther door of the smoke-dried kitchen opened on to the farm-yard, around which were stables and neat-houses.
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