"Our house in the country was twelve pounds a year--I don't think we ought to pay as much as that, for of course we should not want a whole house, only two rooms.

A nice, large, airy bedroom, and a cheerful sitting-room.

We should not mind how plain the furniture was, if only it was very, very clean.

You know the kind of place, with snow-white boards--the sort of boards you could eat off--and little plain beds with dimity frills round them, and very white muslin blinds to the windows--we have got our own white muslin curtains; Hannah washed them for us, and they are as white as snow.

Oh! the place we want might be very humble, and very inexpensive.