_Mat_.

"He is of a rustical cut, I know not how; he doth not carry himself like a gentleman of fashion." _Wet_.

"Oh, Mr.Matthew, that's a grace peculiar but to a few." EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR.
The 'big bedroom,' which belonged to the strangers by right of usage, opened from the kitchen; with another door upon the tiny entry-way once described.

It had a fireplace, at present full of green pine bushes; a very clean bed covered with patchwork; the plainest of chairs and a table; and a little bit of carpet on one spot of the floor; the rest was painted.
One little window looked to the south; another to the east; the woodwork, of doors and windows, exceeding homely and unpainted.

An extraordinary gay satin toilet-cushion; and over it a little looking-glass, surrounded and surmounted with more than an equal surface of dark carved wooden framing.
It was to this unwonted prospect that the early June sun opened the young ladies' eyes the next morning.