"Ah, that is different; the
house you purchase is at Auteuil." At these words Bertuccio turned pale.
At this same
house, one of the fellows who went through the rooms, breaking the furniture and helping to destroy the building, found a child's doll--a poor toy--which he exhibited at the window to the mob below, as the image of some unholy saint which the late occupants had worshipped.
At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the
house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring.
It seemed like the one wing of a
house that had never been finished.
The poor little
houses lighted by kerosene lamps, the smoke from the chimneys mounting straight up into the clear air, the grunting of pigs, the women clad in cheap calico dresses and washing dishes in the kitchens, the footsteps of men coming out of the
houses and going off to the stores and saloons of Main Street, the dogs barking and the children crying--all of these things made him seem, as he lurked in the darkness, oddly detached and apart from all life.
Most men appear never to have considered what a
house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they must have such a one as their neighbors have.
Each
house shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either
House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
A dolorous place it was, this canoe
house, filled with groans and sighs, corpses beneath the floor and composing the floor, creatures soon to be corpses upon the floor, corpses swinging in aerial sepulchre overhead, long black canoes, high-ended like beaked predatory monsters, dimly looming in the light of a slow fire where sat an ancient of the tribe of Somo at his interminable task of smoke-curing a bushman's head.
The center of the placard was occupied by a
house, brilliantly painted, new, and dazzling.
To-morrow morning I will begin with the garret, nor desist till I have torn the
house down!"
Now each
house has its own uniform of cap and jersey, of some lively colour; but at the time we are speaking of plush caps have not yet come in, or uniforms of any sort, except the School-house white trousers, which are abominably cold to-day.
"Telemachus, you should not remain so far away from home any longer, nor leave your property with such dangerous people in your
house; they will eat up everything you have among them, and you will have been on a fool's errand.
