All these were piled upon the secretary, with many others,--odd volumes of sermons and the like; but the Greek and Latin lay at the top, and showed signs of most frequent use.

There was one arm-chair in the room,--a Windsor-chair, as such used to be called, made soft by an old cushion in the back, in which Mr.Crawley sat when both he and his wife were in the room, and Mrs.Crawley when he was absent.
And there was an old horsehair sofa,--now almost denuded of its horsehair,--but that, like the tables, required the assistance of a friendly wall.

Then there was half a dozen of other chairs,--all of different sorts,--and they completed the furniture of the room.

It was not such a room as one would wish to see inhabited by a beneficed clergyman of the Church of England; but they who know what money will do and what it will not, will understand how easily a man with a family, and with a hundred and thirty pounds a year, may be brought to the need of inhabiting such a chamber.

When it is remembered that three pounds of meat a day, at ninepence a pound, will cost over forty pounds a year, there need be no difficulty in understanding that it may be so.