They are rarely kept at an agreeable temperature.

The mansion-house has large fireplaces and generous chimneys, and is open to the sunshine.

The farm-house makes no pretensions, but it has a good warm kitchen, at any rate, and one can be comfortable there with the rest of the family, without fear and without reproach.

These lesser country-houses of genteel aspirations are much given to patent subterfuges of one kind and another to get heat without combustion.

The chilly parlor and the slippery hair-cloth seat take the life out of the warmest welcome.