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Updated: June 15, 2025
On this turbulent night the old kitchen looked very peaceful and home-like, the open fire burned brightly, flashing its flame- light against the ceiling's huge oak beams everything was swept clean and polished to the utmost point of perfection, and the table on which Robin rested the book he was reading was covered with a tapestried cloth, embroidered in many colours, dark and bright contrasted cunningly, with an effect that was soothing and restful to the eyes.
I am afraid this is not a very eventful story, and yet there is that That very convenient gesture, an arm protruded and flickering fingers, conveys my meaning best. Perhaps you will understand. Euphemia has great ideas of putting people at their ease, a thousand little devices for thawing the very stiffest among them with a home-like glow.
The old house so full of something better than its opulence, an atmosphere of genial tranquillity which made it home-like to whoever crossed its threshold. Herself the daily companion and dear wife of the master who diffused such sunshine there; whose serenity soothed her restlessness; whose affection would be as enduring as his patience; whose character she so truly honored.
"`Dearest, Darling People, especially Bridgie, I was gladder than ever to get your letters this week, because it's been raining and dull, and the mud looked so home-like that it depressed my spirits. Therese has gone out for the day, so Pere and I are alone. He wears white socks and a velvet jacket, and sleeps all the time.
Here it was so agreeable, so home-like; no one could have seen by the trees that since then they had stood stripped of leaves and covered with snow; luxuriantly green they waved themselves in the sun's warmth, just as when Otto last gazed out of this window. He had the red room as before. The dinner-bell rang. Louise met him in the passage.
How we did wish for a peep into her own home, to get a hint with regard to arranging her things, so as to be home-like! You know there is often so much in association, and we would have loved the new strange place to have a familiar look to her at first sight.
The strongly-turreted wall runs from the castle till it loses itself in the rock, and the building has a home-like inhabited, complete look; which, in virtue of the quaint irregularity and magnificent natural position of the castle, standing guard over the foaming Eltz, does not take from its romantic appearance, as preservation or restoration too often does.
The dainty rooms of the country house, with their quaint, old-fashioned, striped wall paper, the big four-poster beds, a relic of a by-gone generation, the mahogany dressers with their shining mirrors, and the delightful home-like atmosphere all had combined to make the stay of the girls most pleasant.
"It is as if I were going to make a home out there, and oh, how can it ever be like a home? How could I wish it to be? The barer and less home-like the better I should like it." Papa looked troubled. "We have to think of appearances, you know," he said. "So many people will come to see you, and it would not do to look as if we took no interest in the place." Mother said no more.
One can think how it must rejoice the heart of a partridge or a rabbit to come from the dry, whistling sweep of a deciduous forest under the home-like shadow of their branches. "As for the stork, the fir trees are her house," says the Hebrew poet; and our fir trees, this winter, give shelter to much small game. Often, on the light-fallen snow, I meet their little footprints.
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