Sketches by Boz - Penn State University

Sketches by Bozwe viewed the entire removal of the knocker from the in the parlour window intimating that lodgings for adoor of the next house to the one we lived in, some single gentleman were to be let within.time ago, and the substitution of a bell. This was a It was a neat, dull little house, on the shady side ofcalamity we had never anticipated. The bare idea of the way, with new, narrow floorcloth in the passage,anybody being able to exist without a knocker, appeared and new, narrow stair-carpets up to the first floor. Theso wild and visionary, that it had never for one instant paper was new, and the paint was new, and the furniturewas new; and all three, paper, paint, and furniture,entered our imagination.We sauntered moodily from the spot, and bent our bespoke the limited means of the tenant. There was asteps towards Eaton-square, then just building. What little red and black carpet in the drawing-room, with awas our astonishment and indignation to find that bells border of flooring all the way round; a few stained chairswere fast becoming the rule, and knockers the exception!Our theory trembled beneath the shock. We has-each of the little sideboards, which, with the additionand a pembroke table. A pink shell was displayed ontened home; and fancying we foresaw in the swift of a tea-tray and caddy, a few more shells on the mantelpiece,and three peacock’s feathers tastefully arrangedprogress of events, its entire abolition, resolved fromthat day forward to vent our speculations on our nextdoorneighbours in person. The house adjoining ours on apartment.above them, completed the decorative furniture of thethe left hand was uninhabited, and we had, therefore, This was the room destined for the reception of theplenty of leisure to observe our next-door neighbours single gentleman during the day, and a little back roomon the other side.on the same floor was assigned as his sleeping apartmentby night.The house without the knocker was in the occupationof a city clerk, and there was a neatly-written bill The bill had not been long in the window, when a44