The room we were in was very plainly furnished, but perfectly neat, and I was at once struck by the number of books that it contained.

Would you believe it?
one of the leading magazines lay on the table.

The mother, a pale, gaunt woman, who looked utterly worn out, went with the doctor to the adjoining sick-room, and the husband's eyes followed them anxiously.
"'Your place seems rather lonely,' I said to him, 'but you evidently know how to find society in books.' "'Yes,' he answered, 'I s'pose this region seems lonesome to you, but not to us who were brought up here.

It all depends on what you're used to, especially when you're a-growin' up.

I'm not much of a reader myself, but Tilly was'; and he heaved a great sigh.