It was only necessary for me to express my approval of an article, for her to assent to its purchase.
As to patronizing your fashionable cabinet makers and high-priced upholsterers, we were not guilty of the folly, but bought at reasonable rates from auction stores and at public sales.

Our parlor carpets cost but ninety cents a yard, and were handsomer than those for which a lady of our acquaintance paid a dollar and thirty-eight.

Our chairs were of a neat, fancy pattern, and had cost thirty dollars a dozen.

We had hesitated for some time between a set at twenty-four dollars a dozen and these; but the style being so much more attractive, we let our taste govern in the selection.

The price of our sofa was eighteen dollars, and I thought it a really genteel affair, though my wife was not in raptures about it.