The Aspern Papers

by Henry James

“We have never performed something of the type; we have got never had a lodger or any sort of inmate.” So a bargain as this she made a thing of pronouncing to me. “We are very terrible, we stay very badly. The rooms are very bare—which you would possibly take; they have got no longer something in them. I don’t understand how you may sleep, how you may consume.” “With your permission, I may want to with out problems installed a bed and some tables and chairs. C’est l. A. Moindre des choses and the affair of an hour or . I know a piece guy from whom I can lease what I have to want for some months, for a trifle, and my gondolier can deliver the things round in his boat. Of course in this great residence you need to have a second kitchen, and my servant, who's a splendidly accessible fellow” (this personage changed into an evocation of the immediate), “can effortlessly prepare dinner dinner me a chop there. My tastes and conduct are of the handiest; I stay on plants!” And then I ventured to feature that if they had been very poor it have become all of the extra reason they ought to allow their rooms. They had been terrible economists—I had in no manner heard of this form of waste of material.