Very much different, however, from the abode whose windows shed no light and whose door _is barred from within_.
"Nobody Home!" that's the sign for this door.
Mister Numbskull lives here and most of the time _he sleeps_.

When anyone knocks on his door he pulls the covers up over his head to shut out the noise.

He's down on his luck anyhow, therefore it would be a waste of good shoe leather for him to be up and puttering around.

If Opportunity ever knocked at his door he could say in all truth that _he never heard it_.

He had often heard of Opportunity being in the neighborhood, but one thing is certain--_someone else had invariably seen him first_.