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Updated: May 14, 2025
In the central one-roomed cottage of this group, on the right bank, Robert Stephenson lived for a time with his family; the pit at which he worked standing in the rear of the cottages.
He learned that I was a sportsman, and fell to talking of a very good friend of his, an officer, who had a 'Mindindenger' Swedish gun, with a copper stock, just like a cannon, so that when you fire it off you are almost knocked senseless it had been left behind by the French and a dog simply one of Nature's marvels! that he himself had always had a great passion for the chase, and his priest would have made no trouble about it he used in fact to catch quails with him but the ecclesiastical superior had pursued him with endless persecution; 'and as for Narkiz Semyonitch, he observed in a sing-song tone, 'if according to his notions I'm not a trustworthy person well, what I say is: he's let his eyebrows grow till he's like a woodcock, and he fancies all the sciences are known to him. By this time we had reached the inn, a solitary tumble-down, one-roomed little hut without backyard or outbuildings; an emaciated dog lay curled up under the window; a hen was scratching in the dust under his very nose.
The thoroughfare upon which he found himself standing was little more than a lane, hedged on either side by crazy structures that nearly all had sprung to rambling life from one-roomed refugee shacks which had dotted the city after the fire and earthquake.
He went into the poor little house and stood for a moment looking earnestly at the wooden tablet. It was on a shelf in the one-roomed shanty, an oblong piece of wood about twelve inches high, enclosed in a wooden case. Through the carved screen work in the front, K'ang-p'u could see his grandfather's name written in Chinese characters on the tablet.
There was a pool of green water about this hovel, and all the hovels in the district were the same, one-roomed hovels, full of peat smoke, and on the hearth a black iron pot, with traces of some yellow meal stirabout in it.
No one could call it a "commodious station home," and it was even patched up and shabby; but, for all that, neat and cared for. An orderly little array of one-roomed buildings, mostly built of sawn slabs, and ranged round a broad oblong space with a precision that suggested the idea of a section of a street cut out from some neat compact little village.
Whatever mother may have thought of the one-roomed cabin, whose chinks let in the sun by day and the moon and stars by night, and whose carpet was nature's greenest velvet, life in it was a perennial picnic for the children.
A charming drive through the "oak openings" and over the rolling prairie brought us to the cabin which was to serve as meeting-house. It was a long, low, one-roomed building, the logs of which it was constructed still rejoicing in their primitive covering of bark, the openings between them being closed with clay thrown in by hand. Mr.
Though ill, starving and hopeless about her own future, she is troubled for others, for she adds, "since I have known the horror of this life, my heart goes out to others that are enduring it." Now this class of woman is not much in evidence till the final catastrophe comes, when the doors of a one-roomed home are closed against them.
"She can't come any more," said Maurice, "her mother's worse, and they say she won't live much longer." Clemence felt conscience-stricken at having forgotten her, and set out for the little one-roomed cabin directly after school was dismissed. She found the direst poverty and wretchedness.
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