Explore "Something of Myself" by Rudyard Kipling on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
How can I turn from any fire / On any man's hearth-stone? / I know the wonder and desire / That went to build my own. / -The Fires
All this busy while the Committee of Ways and Means kept before them the hope of a house of their very own--a real House in which to settle down for keeps--and took trains on rails and horsed carriages of the age to seek it. Our adventures were many and sometimes grim--as when a 'comfortable nursery' proved to be a dark padded cell at the end of a discreet passage! Thus we quested for two or three years, till one summer day a friend cried at our door; 'Mr. Harmsworth has just brought round one of those motor-car things. Come and try it!'