Even here he discovered but little furniture, and that little of the heavy old-fashioned sort.

Besides the sideboard, he perceived a dining-table, six chairs, and a dingy brown carpet.

There were no curtains on the window, and no pictures or prints on the drab-coloured walls.

The empty grate showed its bleak black cavity undisguised; and the mantelpiece had nothing on it but the doctor's dirty and strong-smelling pipe.

Benjulia set down his watering-pot, as a sign that the paroxysm of pain had passed away.