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Marchbanks received a good many people in a grand, occasional, wholesale civility, to whom she would not sacrifice any fraction of her private hours. Mrs. Hobart found her way by instinct to the china-closet, the china-room, more properly speaking. Mrs. Marchbanks rather followed than led. The shelves, laden with costly pottery, reached from floor to ceiling.
The walls are hung with velvet brocade and rich silk, and panelled with four arazzi, enclosed in strips of gold embroidery. The tapestries are Gobelins, by Coypel, director of the Gobelin establishment. The China-room contains some splendid services, chiefly of Sèvres and Dresden.
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