Pride and His Prisoners Author:A. L. O. E. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: Nelson Subjects: History / General Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / Religious / Christian Religion / Christian Life / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typ... more »os or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. A GLANCE INTO THE COTTAGE. " Where's he for honest poverty Wha hangs his head, and a' that, The coward slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that" Bdxns. The " small grey speck " just visible from the summit of Nettleby Tower, on nearer approach expands into a stone cottage, which, excepting that it has two storeys instead of one, and can boast an iron knocker to the door, and an apology for a verandah round the window, has little that could serve to distinguish it from the dwelling of a common labourer. We will not pause in the little garden, even to look at the bed of polyanthus in which its possessor takes great pride; we will at once enter the single sitting-room which occupies almost the whole of the ground floor, and after taking a glance at the apartment, give a little attention to its occupants. It is evident, even on the most superficial survey, that different tastes have been concerned in the fitting up of the cottage. Most of the furniture is plain, even to coarseness ; the table is of deal, and so are the chairs, but over the first a delicate cover c has been thrown, and the latter -- to the annoyance of the master of the fiouse -- are adorned with a variety of tidies, which too often form themselves into superfluous articles of dress for those who chance to occupy the seats. The wall is merely white-washed, but there has been an attempt to make it look gay, by hanging on it pale water- colour drawi...« less