The floor, the wainscoting, were of mahogany—the walls were hung with the finest tapestry—and there were occasional spaces in which large mirrors had been set: but the mahogany was rough and discoloured, the tapestry rent and faded, and the mirrors either wholly gone, and their places filled by matting, or by fragments smashed and shivered in every direction.
The front bar was plying trade too, by customers that kept oozing in through the back door. The fat publican served whoever came, muzzy with the succession of pots that stodged away his day.
His undress, and the agitation he was apparently in, which she imputed to the effect of her charms, combined to make him appear more interesting both to the mother and daughter […] .
Also values and policies seem to be implicit or rootable in such facts.
