for few were the rebellious spirits who would have dared to call the stately home of the van der Luydens gloomy. Those privileged to enter it shivered there, and spoke of it as \"handsome.\" But suddenly he was glad that she had given voice to the general shiver.
\"It's delicious—what you've done here,\" he repeated.
\"I like the little house,\" she admitted; \"but I suppose what I like is the blessedness of its being here, in my own country and my own town; and then,
for few were the rebellious spirits who would have dared to call the stately home of the van der Luydens gloomy. Those privileged to enter it shivered there, and spoke of it as \"handsome.\" But suddenly he was glad that she had given voice to the general shiver.
\"It's delicious—what you've done here,\" he repeated.
\"I like the little house,\" she admitted; \"but I suppose what I like is the blessedness of its being here, in my own country and my own town; and then,
