"No,I shouldn't say that."

"If anything,the house should be dearer than the household gear.Yet at each remove we drag a lengthening chain of tables,chairs,side-boards,portraits,landscapes,bedsteads,washstands,stoves,kitchen utensils,and bric-a-brac after us,because,as my wife says,we cannot bear to part with them.At several times in our own lives we have accumulated stuff enough to furnish two or three house and have paid a pretty stiff house-rent in the form of storage for the overflow.Why,I am doing that very thing now!Aren't you?"

"I am--in a certain degree,"I assented.