He promised to visit me in the course of a few hours.

I returned to the Nuova Casa, and now, for the first time, had leisure to examine my apartment.

The arrangement was simple in the extreme.

An iron bedstead, with a mattress, coverlet, and bolster, a very dingy table, with two chairs, a small bench, and a cupboard, all of deal, composed the whole furniture.

These chattels, and also the windows, some panes of which were broken, may once, in very ancient times, have been clean.