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Updated: June 5, 2025
I supply the funds to refurnish the house, we'll say, and I give you your opportunity to do what you want to do, to make your mark in your own way. In exchange you accept the wife I provide for you.
HERBERT. Yes, if you mean doing things by indirection. THE MISTRESS. When you men assume all the direction, what else is left to us? THE FIRE-TENDER. Did you ever see a woman refurnish a house? THE YOUNG LADY STAYING WITH US. I never saw a man do it, unless he was burned out of his rookery. HERBERT. There is no comfort in new things.
She walked about the room admiring the hangings and prints, the old Chinese lanterns that held the candles. "I am going to refurnish our lower rooms," she said. "If you have time do help me. Heavens! I wish I could work off some of that old furniture on you. I like the Italian pieces well enough, but there are too many of them.
One said that he'd no place in his house for such a first-class article; it would merely make the rest of the furniture look shabby, and he shouldn't refurnish in order to please anybody. Another said that he wasn't going to bother himself with looking after a real gold heart, when a silver-gilt one would serve his purpose just as well.
For a moment he watched the living riotous things and then, as though jerking himself back into a path from which his feet had wandered, hurried onward to the shop, looking as he went not into the branches of trees, but downward at the dust of the road. In the shop Hugh tried all morning to refurnish the warehouse of his mind, to put back into it the things blown so recklessly away.
She looked complacently up at the hangings of primrose silk that hid the fifteenth century frescoes on the walls. Her cousin hesitated. "I guess it must have cost some." "Yes. The Marchese does not like it. He is so set on his worm-eaten old tapestries and carved chairs, and he wanted momma to refurnish the palace to match, but not she! Louis Quinze, she said, and Louis Quinze it is, more or less.
Which while we were careful of, to refurnish and supply; divers of our men harping on the reports lately brought us, were muttering of the forces of the town, which our Captain perceiving, told them, that "He had brought them to the mouth of the Treasure of the World, if they would want it, they might henceforth blame nobody but themselves!" No, not with that which they had gotten already.
We could refurnish, and make it perfect; whereas nothing can be done to this place, so inconveniently built and buried in trees. I should feel much freer in a place of my own." "So that is what you meant when I thought you were thinking of my mother?"
'Well, we won't speak of it any more till after Tuesday, said Madame Frabelle, 'and take my advice: throw yourself into other things. She glanced round the room. 'It's a splendid idea to divert your thoughts; why don't you refurnish your boudoir? Edith had often noticed the strange lack in Eglantine of any sense of decoration.
It was a check for a thousand dollars. "That will refurnish the mission from top to bottom," she said, "and run it for a year." "How generous he is!" cried my wife. Margaret did not reply, but she looked at the check, and there were tears in her eyes. The Arbuser cottage at Lenox was really a magnificent villa. Richardson had built it.
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