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Updated: May 3, 2025
Lewis received that night. This was the first coming of home-comfort to the family. Tip had apples in his pocket, which Howard Minturn had given him; he roasted them before the fire, and his father ate very little pieces of them; and his mother darned stockings by the light of the candle in the clean little candlestick set on the clean little stand; and they were happy.
And at the same time a curious, pleasant desire, which might be primitive and coeval with the provident passion of the squirrels and honey-bees, thrilled him. Then he dismissed it bitterly. What need of winter-stores and provisions for sweet home-comfort in the hearts of freezing storms was there for him?
I would not for the world have forgotten their commissions, or lost their little letters, for all the Benbows and Crosses in the world. But I was confident in my home-comfort and peacefulness.
Thus it came to pass, that, before the week ended, the charge of the prison had been transferred to Adolphus Montier. The family made great efforts in order to impart an air of cheerfulness and home-comfort to their new dwelling-place.
After my long sojourn in Italian albergi, whose uncarpeted floors, and chinky windows and doors, are but ill fitted to resist the winds and cold of winter, I sat down in "Thomson's," furnished as it is with all the comforts of an English inn, with a feeling of home-comfort such as I have rarely experienced.
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