It is within as it is without.

Although a great many lovely things are scattered about of recent make, the wood-work and the heavy furniture are aristocratic from their very age, and in their way, literally perfection.
"Miss Ercildoune met me with not quite her usual grace and ease.

She was, no doubt, surprised at my unexpected appearance, and--I then thought, as a consequence--slightly embarrassed.

I soon afterwards discovered the constraint in her manner sprang from another cause.
"I had reached the house just at lunch-time, and she would take me out to the table to eat something with her.

I had hoped to see her father, and was disappointed when she informed me he was in the city.