The casings, table, chairs, dressing table, chest of drawers, and bed were solid curly maple.

The doors were big polished slabs of it, each containing enough material to veneer all the furniture in the room.

The walls were of plaster, tinted yellow, and the windows with yellow shades were curtained in dainty white.

She could hear the Harvester carrying the load from the wagon to the front porch, the clamour of the barn yard; and as she went to the north window to see the view, a shining peacock strutted down the walk and went to the Harvester's hand for grain, while scores of snow-white doves circled over his head.

She stepped on deep rugs of yellow goat skins, and, glancing at the windows on either side, she opened the door.
Outside it lay a porch with a railing, but no roof.