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Updated: May 9, 2025
Laying Thelma gently down upon the very couch her dead father had so lately occupied, she sent the distracted Valdemar out to gather fresh pine-logs for the fire, and then busied herself in bringing down Thelma's own little bed from the upper floor, airing it with methodical care, and making it as warm and cosy as a bird's-nest.
We could not hope to pass them and reach the Rio Grande alive. Only a few hours of daylight remained. Whatever was to be done in preparation for defence must be done at once. In the wood-yard there were tiers of dry pine-logs, many of them four feet in diameter, and all about twenty feet long.
"A verandah, my lady, is the same thing, only the old Dutch settlers gave it the name of a stoup; and the stoup is heavier and broader, and not quite so nicely made as a verandah. One day my uncle was crossing the lake on the ice; it was a cold winter afternoon; he was in a hurry to take some food to his brothers, who were drawing pine-logs in the bush.
And I like the smell," I said, sniffing. "The pine-logs, I suppose." "And the cedar panelling, perhaps, scents the place a little when it gets hot." "You have thousands of books here." And I looked round at the high shelves between the long windows. "And what a nice piano! How happy you must be!" "I should have been and am sometimes, still," he said. "The Duke had a good room, too, at Myrlton."
The company of artillery was still on the hill, under the command of Lieutenant Ord, engaged in building a fort whereon to mount the guns we had brought out in the Lexington, and also in constructing quarters out of hewn pine-logs for the men.
It was one of the glorious nights of the north, and winter had already begun to melt into early spring, when two men sate under a kind of rustic porch of rough pine-logs, not very unlike those seen now in Switzerland and the Tyrol.
The fall of snowflakes in a still air, preserving to each crystal its perfect form; the blowing of sleet over a wide sheet of water, and over plains; the waving rye-fields; the mimic waving of acres of houstonia, whose innumerable florets whiten and ripple before the eye; the reflections of trees and flowers in glassy lakes; the musical steaming odorous south wind, which converts all trees to wind-harps; the crackling and spurting of hemlock in the flames; or of pine-logs, which yield glory to the walls and faces in the sitting-room, these are the music and pictures of the most ancient religion.
"I am not a countryman; I am an Englishman," replied Louis. "My name is Louis d'Arragon." "Ah! I know. Charles has told me, Monsieur le " But D'Arragon heard no more, for he closed the door behind him. He found Desiree awaiting him in the entrance hall of the inn, where a fire of pine-logs burnt in an open chimney.
Large mould candles were also sold so cheap by the Russians that it was worth while to bring them home for the use of the whole family, even to burn in the stables and stalls, as the supply of bears' fat was precarious, and the pine-tree was too precious, so far north, to be split up into torches, while it even fell so short occasionally as to compel the family to burn peat, which they did not like nearly so well as pine-logs.
So it had been every holiday; he started with an afternoon's preliminary exploration, flinging open doors, sniffing the familiar scent of leather bindings, lavender and pine-logs, critically watchful for change. Now the change had come in himself; Agnes had commented on it, his mother and Sybil had noticed it. . . .
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