She fair rails on me for not treating him well.

Let her take him herself, the loutish loon!" And tossing her head so that her coverchief required readjusting, Cherry slipped down the narrow wooden staircase into the rooms that lay below.
Kitchen and dining parlour occupied the whole of this floor, which was not the ground floor of the house.

That was taken up by the shop, in which Martin Holt's samples of wools and stuffs were exposed.

He was more (to borrow a modern expression) in the wholesale than the retail line of business, and his shop was nothing very great to look at, and did not at all indicate the scope of his real trade and substance; but it was a convenient place for customers to come to, to examine samples and talk over their orders.

Martin Holt sat all day long in a parlour behind the shop, pretty well filled with bales and sacks and other impedimenta of his trade, and received those who came to him in the way of business.