I wouldn't ask to sit down to a better table." "What kind of a room have you?
and what kind of a bed ?" "Good enough for a lord." "Nonsense!" "No, but I am in earnest, as I will prove to you.

I sleep on as fine a bed as ever I saw, laid on a richly carved mahogany bedstead, with beautiful curtains.

The floor is covered with a Brussels carpet, nearly new and of a rich pattern.

There is in the room a mahogany wardrobe, an elegant piece of furniture--a marble top dressing bureau, and a mahogany wash-stand with a marble slab.

Now if you don't call that a touch above a common boarding house, you've been more fortunate than I have been until lately." "Are there any vacancies there, Tom ?" "There is another bed in my room." "Well, just tell them, to-night, that I'll be there to-morrow morning." "Very well." "And I know of a couple more that'll add to the mess, if there is room." "It's a large house, and I believe they have room yet to spare." A week more passed away, and the house had its complement, six young men, and the polite gentleman and his wife.