Dust flew in clouds for the first day or two, but it flew out of windows and doors and was not allowed to settle within.

The old black walnut furniture glistened with oil.

The mirrors and the crockery sparkled from baths of hot water and soap.

Even St.Stephen, in the engravings on the dining-room wall, was forced to a martyrdom of the fullest publicity, because the spots and smears on the glass covering his sufferings were violently removed.

In the sleeping rooms upstairs the feather beds were beaten and aired, the sheets and blankets and patchwork comforters exposed to the light, and the window curtains dragged down and left to flap on the clothesline.