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She would not be greedy, she said to herself. She did not want more money, and therefore she would have none of Mr Cheesacre. So far she resolved, resolving also that, if possible, the mahogany-furnitured bedrooms should be kept in the family, and made over to her niece, Kate Vavasor. But should she marry for love; and if so, should Captain Bellfield be the man?
With most ladies, when a gentleman has been on his knees before one of them in the morning, with outspoken protestations of love, with clearly defined proffers of marriage, with a minute inventory of the offerer's worldly wealth, down even to the "mahogany-furnitured" bed-chambers, as was the case with Mr Cheesacre, and when all these overtures have been peremptorily declined, a gentleman in such a case, I say, would generally feel some awkwardness in sitting down to tea with the lady at the close of such a performance.
Mahogany-furnitured bedrooms assist one's comfort in this life; and heaps of manure, though they are not brilliant in romance, are very efficacious in farming.
He knew the ways of the house, and was not surprised to find himself left alone till after dusk; nor was he much surprised when he learned that he was not put into one of the mahogany-furnitured chambers, but into a back room looking over the farm-yard in which there was no fire-place.
"I'll expose you." "Don't now; don't be ill-natured." "Will you tell me where you mean to sleep to-night, Captain Bellfield?" "If I sleep at Oileymead it will only be on condition that I have one of the mahogany-furnitured bedrooms." "You'll never put your foot in that house again. You're a rascal, sir." "Come, come, Cheesy, it won't do for us to quarrel in a lady's house.
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