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It was a large, low, old-fashioned, rambling house, purchased by its owner many years before, when he had a numerous family with him, and required plenty of house-room; but its principal charm to Fan was the garden, covering about four acres of ground, well stocked with a great variety of shrubs and flowers, and containing some trees of noble growth. Mrs.
They again save a little money, and need it; for the estate on which they have lived from childhood changing hands, they are, with their aged father, expelled from the dear old dog-kennel to find house-room where they can. Why not? "it was not in the bond." The house did not belong to them; nothing of it, at least, which could be specified in any known lease.
"Let us home; it is a long and a dreary road to Cecil Place, and the night is upon us already! so up, good Solomon. Here, landlord! this fatted calf is unable to move: give him house-room till to-morrow; and mind you put him on his way in time for the dinner-hour," was Robin's parting speech.
See how they tilt 'em on the two back legs and that's ruin to a chair! Ah! when I be gone he won't find another old man to make such work with, and provide goods for his breaking, and house-room and drink for his tear- brass set!
"I come, worse luck, to beg for house-room down here tonight," I said to the man. "Did my wife say so?" he inquired. "Yes; a new lodger came to my room." To this the man made no reply, but proceeded to finger the cards. There this man sat, day after day, and played cards with anybody who happened to come in played for nothing, only just to kill time, and have something in hand.
I had a long talk with him myself, and tried to explain what I was doing, and how many things I would buy of them, and showed him my stock of heads, and knives, and cloth, and tobacco, all of which I would spend with his family and friends if he would give me house-room.
"The house will be down about our ears," cried Tabitha as the wind shook it with increasing violence. "Let it fall," said Peter, folding his arms, as he seated himself upon the chest. "No, no, my old friend Peter!" said John Brown. "I have house-room for you and Tabby, and a safe vault for the chest of treasure.
Taking leave of the amusingly miscellaneous party in the "house-room," I left Shediac for the Bend, in company with seven persons from Prince Edward Island, in a waggon drawn by two ponies, and driven by the landlord, a shrewd specimen of a colonist. This mode of transit deserves a passing notice.
"I shall be mighty glad to get rid of the mopy creature," Betty's mother had, said when they talked of my departure. "I wouldn't give the thing house-room for my part." "Cousin Polly will like it, though," Betty answered her mother. "Polly was always fond of pets, and she'll be powerful pleased to get it as a present from her Southern kinfolks."
"We have not forgotten how you turned a poor family into the street, in the dead of winter, because they could not pay their rent." "Could I afford to give them house-room?" inquired Gunn. "Perhaps not. At any rate, I don't feel inclined to give you house-room any longer." Mr. Gunn slunk out of the room, under the impression that his company was no longer desired. "Mr.
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