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Marcella too felt pleasure in the reflections of herself as they passed up the lavishly bemirrored staircase.
Outside, in the open halls on cots, were English, French, Greek, and Serbian officers. The place looked like a military hospital. The main salon, gilded and bemirrored, had lost its identity.
Past this, the amended plans doubled the floor space of the lobby debating-ground dear to the heart of the country delegate and particular pains had been taken to make this semi-public forum, where the burning question of the moment could be caucussed and the shaky partisan resworn to fealty, attractive and home-like; the plainly tiled floor, leather-covered lounging-chairs, and numerous and convenient cuspidors lending an air of democratic comfort which was somehow missing in the resplendent, bemirrored, onyx-plated bar, blazing with its cut glass and polished mahogany.
To reach our dining room we had to pass through the large room where the chambermaids ate. They had long bare tables, no cloths, and sat at benches without backs. As to food, our dining room but reflected the state of mind any and every hotel dining room reflects, from the most begilded and bemirrored down.
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