Reginald Hawthorne lay upon a couch on the wide veranda of his lovely home.

" He went off, but when he reached the steps to the veranda in front of the hotel he stopped.

Patty was not sorry when her Elmbridge cousins concluded their visit, and the evening after their departure she sat on the veranda with her father, talking about them.

" "Haven't we been walking up and down outside this lighted veranda for the last ten minutes?

" The village of their quest once reached, the Ford drew up before a neat brick house built around three sides of a courtyard, with verandas on the court side.

Good night, old girl!' CHAPTER XXVII The Elopement The following Tuesday, Edith, Aylmer, Vincy and Mrs Ottley were sitting on the veranda after dinner.

She stood talking on the veranda to Falconer and Mrs. Harland, as she waited for Angela to come down, and for Hilliard to bring round the car.

"After remaining a few moments, the master of ceremonies, who, by the by, apologized to me for miscalling my name, opened the door from the veranda into the empress' drawing-room, where we were again put in line to await the appearance of the empress.

I found the house where Olinto liveda small, smoke-blackened, semi-detached place standing back in a tiny strip of weedy garden, with a wooden veranda before the first floor windows.

A kind of empty garden, a bare little inclosure, shone dimly in the light that streamed from a low, thick-set veranda at the farther end.

Then some one appeared swiftly from under the shadow of the house; then three came toward it and passed under the veranda near Wesley's window.

Mr. Hildreth paced slowly up and down the veranda behind them.

At a cement bridge over the ditch, leading to a broad veranda under the soft illumination of a big, wrought-iron lantern, Mary drew rein.

The house stood unusually near the river, facing eastward, and standing four-square, with an immense veranda about its sides, and a flight of steps in front spreading broadly downward, as we open arms to a child.

It opened on the veranda by a glass door, and the door stood ajar.

While the main structure still stood firm, and would for generations to come as it had for generations gone, yet the verandas about it had been partially burned and had collapsed, and the place looked dilapidated and forlorn.

On Aquasco there was a dwelling-house containing five large rooms, and having a wide veranda along its entire front.

"Here on the corner of Kearny," continued the Forty-niner, "was an old adobe building with a red-tiled roof and a veranda around it.

Then his pleasant, alert face changed subtly; he lifted the lantern absently, softly replaced it on the veranda beside him, and gazed at it.

Squall after squall had dashed the rain upon my verandas during the night, and I could faintly hear the voices of the men on the schooners as they strove to fend their vessels from the coral embankment, or hauled at anchor-ropes to get more sea-room.

"I am going to build out a big veranda from the dining-room, put in windows for the winter, and then give them over to screens through the summer.

" Three walls of the house were covered with books, and the fourth stopped at the floor to make the wide veranda over the lagoon.

Caddagat was a very old style of house, and all the front rooms opened onto the veranda without any such preliminary as a hall, therefore it was necessary to pass through the dining-room to my bedroom, which was a skillion at the back.