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Verty dismounted, and admiring the beautiful sward, the well tended flowers, and the graceful appendages of the mansion from the bronze knocker, with Minerva's head upon it, to the slight and comfortable wicker smoking-chairs upon the porch opened the little gate, and knocked.
The sitting-room, or parlour as his lordship called it, had an old grey drugget for a carpet, an old round black mahogany table on castors, that the last steward had ejected as too bad for him, four semi-circular wooden-bottomed walnut smoking-chairs; an old spindle-shanked sideboard, with very little middle, over which swung a few bookshelves, with the termination of their green strings surmounted by a couple of foxes' brushes.
Pettigrew bade me good-night. She had also left strict orders with the servants that we were on no account to be disturbed. As soon as we were comfortably seated in our smoking-chairs, which takes longer than some people think, Pettigrew offered me a Cabana. I would have preferred to begin at once with the tobacco; but of course he was my host, and I put myself entirely in his hands.
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