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I could fancy the Lady with the Soul clasping her hands, and The Author crinkling his eyes, and Alicia laughing. This last passage, which, I learned afterward, ran under the carriage house, presently crooked like an elbow and led us into a windowless and stone-floored little room, under the cellar.
A flight of steps led to a stone-floored verandah and they went up it and perched themselves on the parapet, to the probable detriment of the ivy growing across it, and watched the colourful scene. They were quite alone there, for the porch was detached from the terrace that crossed the front of the house. Two French windows were opened and beyond them lay a dimly-lighted library.
Then again another, and in the next side of what was a stone-floored, nearly square apartment, he felt a door. There was the way out, then. The door was not panelled, but of slant bevelled boards, crossed by strong iron hinges, and yes here was the keyhole; but on bending down and looking through, he could feel a cold draught of air, but see no light.
Waller nodded his head with satisfaction, and went off to his right out of the kitchen into a cool stone passage, and then through a door into a stone-floored larder, whose wire-covered, ivy-shaded windows gave upon the north. But Waller Froy had no thought for the situation of the larder.
Thus there was over Aldobrand's door a board stuck out to say that he bought and sold jewels, and would lend money on diamonds or other valuables. A sturdy serving-man opened the door, and when he heard our business was to sell a jewel, left us in a stone-floored hall or lobby, while he went upstairs to ask whether his master would see us.
In the stone-floored kitchen, whither they all trooped after Marjorie, Elspeth was sitting knitting by the fireside. 'Elspeth, when is tea going to be ready? inquired Marjorie, rather impatiently. The girl looked up at her, then down again at her knitting with pretended indifference. 'Tea, Miss Marjorie? I wass thinking you would not be wanting any tea to-day.
The dreaded ano seco of the Mexicans might come again and would come, but never to the inhabitants of Forlorn River. That stone-walled, stone-floored gulch would never leak, and already it contained water enough to irrigate the whole Altar Valley for two dry seasons. Yaqui led swiftly along the lake to the upper end, where the stream roared down over unscalable walls.
Seeing a little, low cottage near the railroad, with the sign of something for the public good over the door, we went to it, and found that it had two rooms, one a kind of rough, stone-floored shed, the other an apartment full ten feet square, with two beds in it, which occupied half the entire space.
There she took a book from the table, and sank into a deep easy-chair, and began to turn the pages. But when, by and by, approaching footsteps became audible in the stone-floored corridor without, Beatrice hastily shut the book, thrust it back upon the table, and caught up another so that Emilia Manfredi, entering, found her reading Monsieur Anatole France's "Etui de nacre."
The girl settles down quickly; and in a week she is baiting lines in the stone-floored kitchen, or tramping inland with her great fish basket slung round her forehead. She bows her strong figure under her burden, and the great pad which prevents the rope from cutting her brow looks like a strange head-dress. Her husband is too secretive to exhibit any pride, but he is satisfied with his helpmate.
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