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Updated: May 14, 2025
For what with the spirit of Happiness that seemed to pervade this little inn of the "Soaring Lark" and the cheery good humour of its buxom host and hostess, my haunting demons fled awhile and in their place was restored peace. Sitting with George in this low-raftered kitchen while his pretty wife bustled comfortably to and fro, we talked and grew acquainted. "By the way, George," said I, "Mr.
Their very furniture was still there as in the parlour, too. For John had sold it all to their landlord, when he wound up affairs. Miss Anna knew even what he had got for it poor John! She dared not go in. She stood leaning against the door-post, looking from outside, like one in exile, at the low-raftered room, with its oak press, and its bed, and its bit of green carpet.
I was getting near her door; not anywhere else could I have gone. She would be at the Rafes' cottage now so easily do the Basin brides move, without wedding journey or trousseau. The wash-tubs and cooking-stove stood at one end of the long, low-raftered room, the cabinet organ and violins at the other.
Here we passed many a merry hour of a long winter night, the green timbers cracking like pistol-shots to the tightening frost-grip, and the hearth logs at each end of the long, low-raftered hall sending up a roar that set the red shadows dancing among ceiling joists.
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