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WHAT THE SNOW GAVE UP.
The agitation of the landlord of the inn at Askham, who was an old Parliamentarian, on discovering the captain under whom he had served in the person of Ralph Ray, threatened of itself to betray him.

With infinite perturbation he came and went, and set before Ralph and Sim such plain fare as his house could furnish after the more luxurious appetites of the Royalist visitors had been satisfied.
The room into which the travellers had been smuggled was a wing of the old house, open to the whitewashed rafters, and with the customary broad hearth.

Armor hung about the walls--a sword here, a cutlass there, and over the rannel-tree a coat of chain steel.

It was clearly the living-room of the landlord's family, and was jealously guarded from the more public part of the inn.