Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 26, 2025
Hood presents you with the picture of a lonely woman at midnight toiling and starving in the slavery of sewing; but Crabbe would trace her from her quiet country-home, through the follies which led her to a London garret.
"I know better." "What do you propose doing when you get home?" "What can I do with thirty dollars, which I left with Peter by-the-way?" "We shall see what we shall see when we come face to face with Aunt Formica. I intend going the rounds with you in New York. I am a student." He carried Osgood to his country-home beyond Liverpool, where they staid till the ship was ready to sail again.
But the owner had not occupied his country-home a whole summer before he determined to make a still more attractive home of it by lighting it with a new-fashioned gas of domestic manufacture. He succeeded in lighting not only his house but the whole country-side, for one moonless night his mansion was burned to the ground.
At any other time she would have made him gladly welcome, as a companion and comfort in her solitude; but he had chosen an evil hour for his visit and his proposals, as the girl's red cheeks and tearful eyes at once told him. He had come to fetch her, cost him what it might, and to carry her away to his country-home, near Arsinoe on the coast.
The rich man had planned beautiful surroundings for his country-home, and during many years nature had labored steadily to carry out his plans. There were grassy stretches and slopes, great trees, and terraces covered with tangled masses of vines and flowers.
Is there a girl whose heart is with her brother at college, who does not feel this regularly as the vacation comes round? Is there a parent whose child is reaping honours in the field of life, and returning childlike from time to time, to rest in the old country-home is there such a parent who is not conscious of the misgiving and the re-assurance, as often as the absence and the re-union occur?
Nay, there were even many more, if we may trust to the "Manual of Zoology" by Milne Edwards, a very good book, excellent for an old scholar like myself, and which I have found very useful in my country-home, as it has enabled me to relate to you one after another the mysterious wonders of life.
Two days before she had been removed from the great London hospital, and brought by Miss Vandaleur to her father's country-home, where the kindliest of white-haired house-keepers watched over her beloved Miss Bee's protégée, tending her with gentlest care. "Good-morning, Eily;" Miss Vandaleur, in a simple morning gown of white, entered the room. Eily struggled to her feet.
It never occurred either to Mr. or Miss Thorne that they were not sufficiently private because the world at large might, if it so wished, walk or drive by their iron gates. That part of the world which availed itself of the privilege was however very small. Such a year or two since were the Thornes of Ullathorne. Such, we believe, are the inhabitants of many an English country-home.
Don't talk of the loneliness of a deserted and ruinous castle; the crickets have not left it, and, if you don't have a merry time with their shrill jokes, it will be your own fault. But if you would have a sense of being terribly alone, come from long residence in some quiet country-home on the border of a quiet country-village, into the hurry-skurry of a strange city, just after nightfall.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking