By this means cleanliness penetrated into every corner: the oak was not only cleaned, but polished like a mirror.

The curtains were French chintzes, of substance, and exquisite patterns, and very voluminous.

On the walls was a delicate rose-tinted satin paper, to which French art, unrivaled in these matters, had given the appearance of being stuffed, padded, and divided into a thousand cozy pillows, by gold-headed nails.
The wardrobes were of satin-wood.

The bedsteads, one small, one large, were plain white, and gold in moderation.
All this, however, was but the frame to the delightful picture of a wealthy young lady's nest.
The things that startled and thrilled Mr.Angelo were those his imagination could see the fair mistress using.

The exquisite toilet table; the Dresden mirror, with its delicate china frame muslined and ribboned; the great ivory-handled brushes, the array of cut-glass gold-mounted bottles, and all the artillery of beauty; the baths of various shapes and sizes, in which she laved her fair body; the bath sheets, and the profusion of linen, fine and coarse; the bed, with its frilled sheets, its huge frilled pillows, and its eider-down quilt, covered with bright purple silk.
A delicate perfume came through the wardrobes, where strata of fine linen from Hamburg and Belfast lay on scented herbs; and this, permeating the room, seemed the very perfume of Beauty itself, and intoxicated the brain.