Save me from another siege at house-hunting! I would about as soon undertake to build a suitable dwelling with my own hands, as to find one "exactly the thing" already up, and waiting with open doors for a tenant.

All the really desirable houses that we found ticketed "to let," were at least two prices above our limit, and most of those within our means we would hardly have lived in rent free.
At last, however, we found a cosey little nest of a house, just built, and clean and neat as a new pin, from top to bottom.

It suited us to a T.And now came the next most important business--selecting furniture.

My wife's ideas had always been a little in advance of mine.

That is, she liked to have every thing of the best quality; and had the weakness, so to speak, of desiring to make an appearance.