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And so, when the Cardinal had disappeared and Abbe Paparelli had returned to the second ante-room, he could not refrain from asking Don Vigilio, "Are their Eminences Cardinal Sanguinetti and Cardinal Boccanera very intimate, then?"
Come and save your portrait! He led her in through the ante-room into the large outer studio. There stood the Maenad on her revolving stand, and there was the raised platform for the model. A heap of clay was to one side, and water was dripping from the statue on to the floor. The studio light had a clear evenness; and, after the heat outside, the coolness of the great bare room was refreshing.
As I said, we went into the ante-room, and there I got my first peep at the divinity that doth hedge not a king, but a commissioned officer in Her Majesty's N. W. M. P. An orderly held us up, and when MacRae had convinced him that our business was urgent, and not for his ears, he graciously allowed us to enter the Presence who proved to be a heavy-set person with sandy, mutton-chop whiskers set bias on a vacuous, round, florid countenance.
In this room, for example, we find Tiepolo allegorizing Venice as the conqueror of the sea. And now for the jewel of art in the Doges' Palace. It is in the room opposite the door by which we entered the ante-room of the Sala del Collegio and it faces us, on the left as we enter: the "Bacchus and Ariadne" of Tintoretto.
Rameses dismissed his attendants in the ante-room of his apartments; when they were alone he turned to Bent-Anat and said affectionately. "What was in your mind when you laid your wreath on the poet's brow?" "What is in every maiden's mind when she does the like," replied Bent-Anat with trustful frankness. "And your father?" asked the king.
At the end of this passage, a small ante-room received them, into which opened the sitting apartment of the good knight which, in the style of the time, might have been termed a fair summer parlour lighted by two oriel windows, so placed as to command each of them a separate avenue, leading distant and deep into the forest.
In order that political opinion may not be influenced by thoughts of the simpler bodily pleasures, no election meeting may be held in a building where any form of food or drink is habitually sold, although that building may be only a Co-operative Hall with facilities for making tea in an ante-room.
The ladies of the court, and those who were guests at the palace of Rheinsberg, were assembled, and waiting in the ante-room, as the princess royal had supposed.
Oliver Brand was an important personage, and his wife therefore had significance, and Mr. Francis apologised, gave directions that she was to come to his ante-room, and rose, sighing, from his dummy Abbey and officials.
"It'll be too much dinner if he doesn't look out," remarked the other. "He's trying to match cocktails with every one that comes up." "Won't make a bit of difference," muttered the veteran. "He's all steel. Cold steel. Can't touch him." Marrineal led the way out of the ante-room to the banquet, escorting Banneker. Never had the editor of The Patriot seemed to be more completely master of himself.
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