Crossword-Solution: POTHOUSE 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

CHAPTER II THE MAN FROM ESSEX I entered the door and started at first with my old astonishment, with which I had woke up, so strange and beautiful did this interior seem to me, though it was but a pothouse parlour.

Catching at words confined to pothouse farmers, and village witty bodies! No, not to Jasper Petulengro.

Even as it is, of course, the spirit of democracy frequently differs widely from the letter, and a pothouse is often a better test than a Parliament.

Still, I believe I have heard tell of such a thing--leastwise, I fancy the newspapers said--but that is ever so much farther inland--down South, you know”-- At this point they reached the hostelry, a suburban pothouse, with a withered green bough over the door, crossed billiard-cues painted on the wall, and this harmless sign over a picture of wild rabbits, feeding: “GAME FELLOWS MEET HERE.” “Game fellows!” It made Tartarin think of Captain Bravida.

For what sort of a home will she return to?--a pothouse! and what sort of a father?--a drunkard! And the fault's hers that deprives him of the drink he loved in his sober days.