Now I find the inside even more delightful.

I"-- she hesitated, and then added--"I don't suppose you would care to let it unfurnished at--at a lower rate ?" Jed was very much embarrassed.

The idea that his caller would make such a proposition as this had not occurred to him for a moment.
If it had the lost key would almost certainly have remained lost.
He liked Mrs.Armstrong even on such short acquaintance, and he had taken a real fancy to Barbara; but his prejudice against tenants remained.

He rubbed his chin.
"Why--why, now, ma'am," he stammered, "you--you wouldn't like livin' in Orham all the year 'round, would you ?" "I hope I should.

I know I should like it better than living-- elsewhere," with, so it seemed to him, a little shudder.