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The study to which the Professor led the way was built out at the back of the house, and crowded with Oriental curios of every age and kind; the furniture had been made by Cairene cabinet-makers, and along the cornices of the book-cases were texts from the Koran, while every chair bore the Arabic for "Welcome" in a gilded firework on its leather back; the lamp was a perforated mosque lantern with long pendent glass tubes like hyacinth glasses; a mummy-case smiled from a corner with laboured bonhomie.
Always twirl one of those revolving book-cases when you visit a scholar's library. That is the way to find out what books he does n't want you to see, which of course are the ones you particularly wish to see. "Some may call all this impertinent and inquisitive. What do you suppose is an interviewer's business? Did you ever see an oyster opened? Yes?
"Well, this is good of you," he said, and reached out his hand across the spread. I took it, and sat down beside the shiny oak bedstead, in a chair covered with tobacco-colored plush. "You feel better?" I asked. "Oh, I feel all right," he answered, with a smile. "It's queer, but I do." My eye fell upon the long line of sectional book-cases that lined one side of the room.
He turned up a directory, noted an address "M. de Lourtier-Vaneau, retired colonial governor, 47 bis, Avenue Kleber" and ran down to his car: "Adolphe, 47 bis, Avenue Kleber." He was shown into a large study furnished with magnificent book-cases containing old volumes in costly bindings.
In a few minutes after this she led the way to the ancient library, tapestried with family portraits, and furnished with book-cases of every past generation. Thus was Thaddeus, the long-cherished orphan of a broken paternal vow, by a wondrous providence established in his new British character a husband, and an owner of large estates in the soil.
The Doctor's desk stood in front of one window, heaped with papers and books; down the middle of the room were low book-cases standing back to back, and where these ended, before the hearth, was a high-backed settle, almost as long as a bed. The children stood still for a minute, speechless with surprise and delight.
He sat in a room marked, like himself, with a kind of serious elegance one of those apartments which seem to fit the person like a more perfect dress. All around the walls ran dwarf book-cases of carved oak, filled with volumes bound in every soft shade of brown and tawny leather, with only enough of red and green to save the shelves from monotony.
And it was a homely place, too, with quantities of book-cases and comfortable chairs for all its vast size. Michael thought there was a faint look of his own room at Arranstoun and he joined the two who had advanced to one of the huge embrasures of the windows where the tea table was laid here there were velvet-covered window seats where one could lounge and gaze out at the sea.
L. is the Library, and living room, connected with the parlor by sliding doors, with recessed book-cases, on each side, and the same on the sides of the bay-window, here facing the south, and possessing a beautiful view of the bay and hills, with the village in the distance, which make it the favorite quarters in winter, being fully exposed to the genial influences of the sun during the absence of foliage at that season.
Only a solitary policeman, his star pinned to the outside of his dripping rubber coat, his helmet shedding rivulets, stood on the corner absorbed in the contemplation of the brown torrent of the gutter plunging into a sewer vent. Landry and Laura were in the library at the rear of the house, a small room, two sides of which were occupied with book-cases. They were busy putting the books in place.
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