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It was a huge room splendidly panelled with dark, carved boiserie Louis XV., the most beautiful of its kind I had ever seen only it was so dimly lit with the same shaded lamps one could hardly see into the corners. The duke was crouching in a chair and looked fearfully pale and ill, and had an inscrutable expression on his face.
There was absolute silence, too, there among the tree tops. Madame Boleski ascended leisurely the shallow stairs there was no lift and rang her three short rings, which Peter, the Russian servant, was accustomed to expect. The door was opened at once, and she was taken through the quaint square hall into the master's own sitting-room, a richly sombre place of oak boiserie and old crimson silk.
The table beneath it was arranged like an altar, and the Ikon was let in to the carved boiserie of the wall. It must have been since he had parted with her that this ridiculous thing had been done! She had not entered his appartement since June. She felt angry that the shrine should be closed and that she could not look upon it, for it must certainly be something which Verisschenzko prized.
It will do me a great deal of good, he protests. We shall see. Night. They came, with Maurice and Alwood Chester, of the American Red Cross. They gave little shrill screams of admiration for the room. "Quel endroit delicieux! What boiserie! English? Yes, of course, English dix-septième, one could see What silver! and cleaned And everything of a chic!
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