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Updated: May 3, 2025
Any prospect was better than a midnight drive of several miles, with no certainty as to our lot at the end of it. So we turned from the inhospitable door and followed our guide. "The latter walked quickly for perhaps a square, stopped before a neat-looking house and rang.
Up the long shady street, then down a wide bye-street that branched to the left under the very edge of the hills, and the accommodating stage set the city girl down at the gate of a neat-looking story-and-a-half house, buried in trees and bowered in summer flowers, unvisited by her for the previous three years, but before that time the scene of many an hour of quiet rustic enjoyment.
So Kunz was disposed of with a very pleasant, neat-looking woman, who begged Miss Adeline to come and have some tea after the service. It was really a beautiful little church 'a little gem' was exactly the term that suggested itself -very ornate, and the chief lack being of repose, for there seemed not an inch devoid of colour or carving.
However, the strange object of the strange-looking stranger in coming to the town, interested some of the wild native boys, and they rushed about to tell it, and in less than five minutes a nice neat-looking middle-aged man stood at my elbow and said he had a good horse and trap and for seven-and-sixpence would drive me to the hill, help me there to find what I wanted, and bring me back in time to catch the conveyance.
A very neat-looking house: door opened by a pretty Quaker maidservant: shown into a well-furnished parlour, cheerful fire, everything bespeaking comfort and happiness.
Her knock was answered by a neat-looking parlourmaid. "I called to see the lady of the house," said Fan. "Is she in?" "Yes, miss; will you please walk in," and she led the way to the drawing- room. "What name shall I say, miss?" said the girl. Fan gave her a card, and then, left alone, sat down and began eagerly studying the well-remembered room.
By the time half the floor and all the bed was strewn with neat-looking piles of things the varieties of her modest wardrobe Florence and Constance came in to see and talk with her, and sat down on the floor too; partly, perhaps, because the chairs were all bespoken in the service of boxes and baskets, and partly to follow what seemed to be the prevailing style of things.
Our pockets were not well lined, and we sought not for luxuries; but we yearned for a good, full meal, which would satisfy our appetite a blessing we had not enjoyed for several weeks. After passing through a couple of streets, we came to a humble but neat-looking dwelling house, with an apology for a garden in front. The place wore a comfortable aspect.
On many of the ridges were scattered cocoanut palms, and occasional mango groves, while many smokes attested the presence of natives. These we found in shambas or groups of little farms, huddled all together, with wilderness and brush and trees, or the wide open green grass lawn between. The houses were very large and neat-looking. They were constructed quite ingeniously from coco branches.
Only at meal times was this interrupted, for Apollonie did not look at this as a minor matter, and she carefully planned what to give her master. For Mr. Trius she had to consider the quantity, for he seemed to have an excellent appetite and clearly enjoyed coming to the neat-looking kitchen. He had begun to show his gratitude to Apollonie by willingly carrying the heavy furniture about.
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