A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a room in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on the walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such ornaments on the mantelpiece, such prints, including a portrait of George the Third, and another of the Prince of Wales, and a representation of the death of Wolfe.
Most, hogy széttárul a függöny, a szín a millcote-i György fogadónak egy szobáját ábrázolja. A tapéta éppen olyan mintás, amilyen a fogadókban szokott lenni, olyan a szőnyeg is, a bútorzat, a dísztárgyak a kandalló párkányán.