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"It was to her room that I went straight from the hospital, carrying, tied in a handkerchief, my entire baggage, one dress, and a few undergarments that the good sisters had given me. "She received me like a sister, and after showing me her lodging, two little attic-rooms shining with cleanliness, "'You'll see, she said, kissing me, 'how happy we'll be here." It was getting late.
As we have before stated, Nanna had supreme control over one of the attic-rooms of the cottage, and for a long time it had been a sanctuary in which she stored her precious things. Old Mr. Lonner loved Nanna as the apple of his eye.
It has two stories, and a tier of very pleasant attic-rooms, two bathing-rooms, and the water carried into each story. The parlor and dining-room both look into a little bower, where a fountain is ever playing into a little marble basin, and which all the year through has its green and bloom.
The others ransacked the two attic-rooms which had been home for Esther and Lucienne: the little living-room under the sloping roof, with the small hearth on which very scanty meals were wont to be cooked, and the bare, narrow room beyond, with the iron bedstead, and the palliasse on the floor for Lucienne.
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