Martin Chuzzlewit1994

Tom Pinch:
[reading a letter from Augustus Moddle to Charity Pecksniff] "By the time you read this, the undersigned will be, if not a corpse, on a ship bound for Tasmania. Send none in pursuit for I will not be taken alive. I love another, she is another's. Everything seems to be someone else's. Oh Miss Pecksniff, why would you not leave me alone? But I will not judge, may the furniture make some amends."

Old Martin Chuzzlewit:
Furniture? Does he mean future?

Tom Pinch:
No sir, I believe the allusion is to a four-poster bed. "Farewell, be the bride of a ducal coronet and forget me. Unalterably, never yours, Augustus".