An enormous wood fire blazed at one end of the hall, and in the inglenook sat a girl of some twenty summers.
An inglenook has been obtained through the introduction of a built-in window-seat which is covered with blue to match the tone of the paper.
An interesting inglenook is a space-saving device that has been introduced.
At one side a closet was glassed in, while in either corner cosy, built-in settles give an inglenookeffect that is very interesting.
On such a night as this the landlord would pull the settle out of the inglenook to the set before the solitary guest a small table, and keep the kettle on the hob.
Shocked at not seeing Auld Jock, by a kind of inspiration he carried the little dog to the inglenook and laid him down under the familiar settle.
The child fled to comforting arms in the inglenook and cried herself to sleep.
As the crowd thinned he returned to the inglenook to find Bobby asleep, not curled up in a tousled ball, as such a little dog should be, but stretched on his side and breathing irregularly.
Illustration: The inglenook seldom fails as a dispenser of home cheer.
The poetry of the inglenook is simple, unpretentious, humble, but it has a tender charm of its own because it sings of a heaven far on this side of the stars: "By men called home.
It matters not whether the inglenook be in wigwam or cabin, cottage or palace, if Love Dwells Within be graven upon the threshold, for "where a true wife comes, there home is always around her.
One afternoon Marusha was sitting in the inglenook stirring the soup and singing a mournful song, because she had never felt so full of joy.
In the wide inglenook before the oak settle a small table had been drawn up, and upon this table stood one wooden platter, and some homely viands sufficiently tempting to a hungry man, and a huge joram of home-brewed ale.
