Londoners, as a rule, take their houses as they can get them, looking only to situation, size, and price.

What Grecian, what Roman, what Turk, what Italian would endure, or would ever have endured, to use a room with a monstrous cantle in the form of a parallelogram cut sheerly out of one corner of it?
This is the shape of room we have now adopted,--or rather which the builders have adopted for us,--in order to throw the whole first floor into one apartment which may be presumed to have noble dimensions,--with such drawback from it as the necessities of the staircase may require.

A sharp unadorned corner projects itself into these would-be noble dimensions, and as ugly a form of chamber is produced as any upon which the eye can look.

I would say more on the subject if I dared to do so here, but I am bound now to confine myself to Miss Vavasor's room.

The monstrous deformity of which I have spoken was not known when that house in Queen Anne Street was built.