. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. THE OLD HOUSE. BYELIZABETH STANHOPE FORBES An April Holiday. THE farmyard BY DORIS SHAW and low, put oneto wondering whatmanner of peoplesat there long , surely, wasthe place of thatlast young daugh-ter of this oldhouse; one seesher slender figureframed in the darksetting of thepanelled window-place; blondecurls tied backwith a love knotof blue, leaningforward withclasped hands,and eyes loweredto the homelyflowers in thelittle courtoutside; earsstrained tocatch the firstsoundofhoof-beats borneby the winddown the va
. International Studio an Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art. THE OLD HOUSE. BYELIZABETH STANHOPE FORBES An April Holiday. THE farmyard BY DORIS SHAW and low, put oneto wondering whatmanner of peoplesat there long , surely, wasthe place of thatlast young daugh-ter of this oldhouse; one seesher slender figureframed in the darksetting of thepanelled window-place; blondecurls tied backwith a love knotof blue, leaningforward withclasped hands,and eyes loweredto the homelyflowers in thelittle courtoutside; earsstrained tocatch the firstsoundofhoof-beats borneby the winddown the valley—for Fairfax and his men areriding hard, and in the Fugoe Hole, the cave orhiding-place on the other side of the coomb,lie forty of the Kings following, deep underthe bracken and brambles, raging to be pentup idle in the dark, biding their time forrevenge. Poor little maid with the beatingheart, listening in the panelled room ! Per-haps her sweetheart was down with the othersin the Fugoe; perhaps the crackle of Round-head musketry rang through the valley ; perhapsher lover fell below there among the bracken. When the day
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