"It is a nest," said she.
"It is a bank-note," said the agent, stimulating equal enthusiasm, after his fashion.

"You can always sell the lease again for more money." Christopher kept cool.

"I don't want a house to sell, but to live in, and do my business; I am a physician: now the drawing-room is built over the entrance to a mews; the back rooms all look into a mews: we shall have the eternal noise and smell of a mews.

My wife's rest will be broken by the carriages rolling in and out.

The hall is fearfully small and stuffy.