Excerpt from House-Room From the centre back door of the house, two paths branch about the oval lawn and join again to lead on to the meadow; there the gravel abruptly ends, but much stepping has trodden a well-marked continuation of it right up to the Stone. Up and down this track, on the first Thurs day in August, a girl was walking. Whenever she came to the Stone, she touched it with her hand or pressed her body against it lightly, but without attention, evidently carrying out some regular ritual. She stared at the ground as she strolled, absorbed with thought of a pleasing nature, for she smiled a little. When she was in the act of turning towards the house on one of her journeys, she saw a woman coming up the garden towards her. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.