BRUNO 



CHAPTER I 



WE do not count the first half-year of our 

 married life, because, during that time 

 we did not live, we boarded. 



Then we found we had developed a strong 

 appetite for housekeeping, so we began to look 

 about us for a house. 



In the small northern village where we must 

 live, it was not possible to rent anything that 

 suited us ; so we decided to take what we could 

 get until we could manage to build what we 

 wanted. 



The house we took was one which had origi- 

 nally been built out in the country, but the 

 town had crept around it until it now seemed 

 to be almost in the heart of the village. 



While we were furnishing and embellishing 

 this our first home, was, I think, the most 



entirely happy time of our lives. 



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