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His fear was too craven. "There's a warehouse at the end here," said I, and led the way to it. But when we reached it, its roof rose in a sharp slope from the low parapet guarding the leads where we stood. "But I don't see," he objected; "and, anyway, I can't manage that." I pointed to a louver skylight half-way up the roof. "We can prise that open, or break it.
It was to this old king, or rather to his son Sigtryg, godson of Sigtryg Silkbeard, and distant cousin of his own, that Hereward now took his way, and told his story, as the king sat in his hall, drinking "across the fire," after the old Norse fashion. The fire of pine logs was in the midst of the hall, and the smoke went out through a louver in the roof.
It's easy enough to reach," I assured him. He was extraordinarily clumsy on the slates, but obeyed my instructions like a child. I wrenched at the wooden louvers. "Got a knife?" I asked. He produced one an ugly-looking weapon, but clean. By good luck, we did not need it; for as he passed it to me, the louver at which I was tugging broke and came away in my hand.
He went into the living room and found the operating instructions tucked into a ventilation louver of the machine. He opened them and read: To Operate All Rex Model Regenerators: 1.Place the Regenerator near a comfortable couch. 2.Plug in the machine. 3.Affix the adjustable contact-band to the forehead. And that's all! Your Regenerator will do the rest! All you must do is cooperate.
In the real country, with acres instead of feet of land, much of the same kind of elaborate simplicity will be found. Certainly the same kind of fire-proof house of only one story with more light, "roofs of steel and glass on the louver principle," will obviate so frequent a change of air as a shut-in house requires, and give more equable temperature. In the city?
Three hundred years ago, Francis I, tore down the dilapidated walls of this old castle, and commerces the magnificent Palace of the Louver upon their foundations. But its construction has required candle, while Gilpin, who was taller and stronger than either of the other boys, bored the hole in the door, in the place which Rodolphus indicated.
He looked and looked and rubbed his eyes, but there was no doubt of it, the parsonage stood there unharmed, with thatch and snow upon its roof. He saw smoke and sparks streaming up through the louver, and rays of light gleaming through the illclosed shutters upon the snow. A man who travels far and wide on the cold highway knows no better sight than the gleam that steals out of a warm room.
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