And the stranger is recovered, thanks to our leechcraft.

He is impatient to see and thank thee." "Well, well, I come, Sibyll," said the student, with a regretful, lingering look at his model, and a sigh to be disturbed from its contemplation; and he slowly quitted the room with Sibyll.
"But not, dear sir and father, not thus--not quite thus--will you go to the stranger, well-born like yourself?
Oh, no! your Sibyll is proud, you know,--proud of her father." So saying, she clung to him fondly, and drew him mechanically, for he had sunk into a revery, and heeded her not, into an adjoining chamber, in which he slept.

The comforts even of the gentry, of men with the acres that Adam had sold, were then few and scanty.

The nobles and the wealthy merchants, indeed, boasted many luxuries that excelled in gaud and pomp those of their equals now.
But the class of the gentry who had very little money at command were contented with hardships from which a menial of this day would revolt.
What they could spend in luxury was usually consumed in dress and the table they were obliged to keep.

These were the essentials of dignity.
Of furniture there was a woful stint.