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Updated: June 8, 2025
It was a one-storied cottage, with broad verandas, half hidden in a luxuriant garden at the point where two streets come together at a little stone bridge crossing a brook a tiny bungalow built for a home, and stretched and pieced out to make a guest-house. I was at home there after a few days as if I had known no other dwelling.
I walked leisurely, so as not to attract attention, and to appear at the exact time, a not very easy task in my youthful excitement. At last I reached the front gate with a beating heart. There was no one on the high veranda, which occupied three sides of the low one-storied house, nor in the garden before it.
But at last we reached the 'modest nest. And modest it certainly was, the nest. It consisted of a small, one-storied house, that seemed almost sunk into the ground, with a slanting wooden roof, and four dingy windows in the front. The furniture of the rooms was of the poorest, and not over tidy, indeed.
He will thank you," and she led the way through the gate in the sandstone wall into the yard, where the outbuildings stood in which the riding horses and the best of the breeding cattle were kept at night, and so past the end of the long, one-storied house, that was stone-built and whitewashed, to the stoep or veranda in front of it.
It was one-storied, with thatched roof, gabled wings, and a projecting central porch. Here lived Mr. Raleigh of Fardell with his wife Katherine, four sons and a daughter. It was a large family for such a small estate, and already the father was wondering what would happen to the younger boys when the little property should have descended, according to the law of the land, to the oldest son.
As these tender thoughts filled his mind, he found himself in the small, dark street which had been indicated to him; it was so narrow that the knee-pieces of his boots touched the wall on each side. At the end of the street he came to a one-storied wooden house, and in his eagerness knocked at the door with repeated strokes.
“Around the hospitals and public buildings and along the west side of the line there were additional works and emplacements for guns, though no guns were mounted in them. “The streets of Santiago are crooked, with narrow lines of one-storied houses, most of which are very dilapidated, but every veranda of every house was thronged by its curious inhabitants,—disarmed soldiers.
And they retraced their steps together. He left her at the door of the quaint, one-storied stone building where, she explained, she had a cot. "You will come to see me again before you go back to your regiment, won't you?" she pleaded, keeping one hand in both of hers. "Of course I will. Try to get some sleep, Letty. You're tremendously pretty when you've had plenty of sleep."
As we had become his property, he had no wish to see us injured; so he quickly drove the people away, and ordered us to accompany him to the house where he was staying. We soon reached a one-storied building, having a gateway, through which we passed into a courtyard, round which ran a colonnade.
Next the keeper carried the unresisting body to a door of what in the feeble light seemed a low, one-storied house possibly hut were a better word thence into an interior where the blackness may be likened to a blindfold many times multiplied. Yet he went to a couch, and laid her upon it. "There my part is done!" he muttered, with a long-drawn breath.... "Now to illuminate the Palace!
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