"But" he added, "is not this villa, which our ancestors constructed, simpler and so better than that elaborate one of yours at Reate: do you see any where here any furniture of citrus wood or ormolu, any decorations of vermillion or blue, any tessellations or mosaic work, all of which on the other hand were displayed in your house?

Because, forsooth, a house is situated out of town, it is no more a villa for that reason than the houses of those who dwell beyond the Porta Flumentaria or in the Aemiliana suburb.

Water should be led into the pigeon house, both for them to drink and to bathe in, for pigeons are very clean birds.

"The hives should be set as near the house as convenient: some men even put them under the very portico for greater safety.

[Footnote 19: Columella (I,4) makes the acute observation that the country house should also be agreeable to the owner's wife if he wishes to get the full measure of enjoyment out of it.

In the ante bellum days every Virginia gentleman had such an "office" in his house yard where he pretended to transact his farm business, but where actually he was wont to escape from the obligations of family and continuous hospitality.]

Say I should undertake ye, which indeed, sir, Will be no little straitness to my living, Considering my Affairs, and my small house, sir, For I see some promises that pull me to ye; Could you content your self, at first thus meanly, To lie hard, in an out-part of my house, sir?

He's gone out Now, if I could but see her: she is not this way: How nastily he keeps his house!

What wife, there? Heaven keep my house from thieves.

to what Garden, Lady? Or to what Cousins house? Ama. Is this my welcome?

You know there's none i'th' house to answer ye,

He did not wish to eat; he could not stay in the house.

* THE DESOLATE HOUSE (1842)

In this community Frederick Mergel was born, in a house which attested the pretensions of its builder by the proud addition of a chimney and somewhat less diminutive window panes, but at the same time bespoke the miserable circumstances of its owner by its present state of dilapidation.

Of course that meant great scandal and vexation for Mergel, who naturally needed consolation; by afternoon therefore there was not an unbroken pane of glass in his house and he was seen late at night still lying on his threshold, raising, from time to time, the neck of a broken bottle to his mouth and pitifully lacerating his face and hands.

They saw her throw herself down in the garden beside a vegetable bed and dig up the earth with her hands, then, anxiously looking about her, quickly pick off some vegetables and slowly return with them in the direction of the house,

His father loved him dearly, never came home without bringing him a roll or something of that sort, and it was even thought he had become more temperate since the birth of the boy; at least the noise in the house decreased.

Herman had gone to a wedding, and had started out early because the bride's house was three miles away.

" They had hardly gone to bed when a gale started to rage as though it would carry the house along with it.

Simon seemed to have lavished on his nephew all the more tender sentiments of which he was capable; at least he missed him greatly and never ceased sending messages if some business at home kept him at his mother's house for any length of time.

At the house of Solomon the Jew, no one knew anything about Aaron; he had not been there at all.

Herr von S. took them along to examine them, and the guards left the house without Margaret's giving another sign of life than that of incessantly biting her lips and blinking her eyes.

The widow's house was never empty of mourners and advisers.

It was almost midnight, and yet faint lights flickered from the snow mounds everywhere, and in every house the inmates were on their knees awaiting in prayer the advent of the holy Christmas festival, as is the custom in Catholic countries, or, at least, as was general in those times.

"Go to the inn," answered another voice, "the fifth house from here!"