The first nine words do not apply: our house is clean enough, thank you. The rest of the sentence though makes me wonder whether Dickens has time-traveled:
It was dingy enough, and not at all clean; but furnished with an odd kind of shabby luxury, with a large footstool, a sofa, and plenty of cushions, an easy-chair, and plenty of pillows, a piano, books, drawing materials, music, newspapers, and a few sketches and pictures.It must've been after we got the piano.
Charles Dickens, Bleak House (1853)
Back in 1852.
ReplyDeleteElaine, I guess it's time we stopped lying about our ages.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a nice, comfortable place to me.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Genevieve. : )
ReplyDeleteSounds like heaven...
ReplyDeleteSean and Genevieve, you'd be welcome anytime.
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