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Poor the place might be ; poor truly it was ; but its neatness was better than elegance , and had but a bright little fire shone on that clean hearth , I should have deemed it more attractive than a palace . Thaddeus Mosley ’ s abstract objects sculpted in wood embody both formal elegance and commanding presence . The eye , sensitively fond of elegance , the extreme of elegance , in everything , and permitting no other around or about him , could not bear the tokens of mental and bodily wretchedness among the ignorant poor ; he escaped from them as soon as possible ; thought that poverty was one of the irregularities of this wrong-working machine of a world , and something utterly beyond his power to do away or alleviate ; and left to his steward all the responsibility that of right rested on his own shoulders . In vain it was represented to her that , if she became the poor parson 's wife , she must relinquish her carriage and her lady's-maid , and all the luxuries and elegances of affluence , which to her were little less than the necessaries of life .