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Gilbert and Nellie were invited to visit her, and as the former was too feeble to accomplish the journey, Nellie went alone, staying a long time, and torturing her sister on her return with a glowing account of the elegantly-furnished house, of which Adaline had once hoped to be the proud mistress.
"To be sure," said I. So he ushered us into a large, elegantly-furnished apartment, looking out immediately upon it. There it sat, upon its green throne, a regal, beautiful, poetic thing, fair and sad. We had singing and prayers, and a sermon from C. We did not go to the table d'hote, for we abominate its long-drawn, endless formalities.
There were lights in the servants' offices; but every other room seemed dark. No; one window in the front, on the ground-floor, shone with the luster of a lamp. Nisida approached it, and beheld Agnes reclining in a pensive manner on a sofa in a small but elegantly-furnished apartment.
Not a sound interrupted the silence of this small, elegantly-furnished sitting-room. Even the sun apparently dared only to send a few stealthy beams through the windows, and the wind seemed to hold its breath in order not to shake the panes of the small chamber adjoining, venerated by all the inmates of the house as a sacred temple of art.
If they won't believe me, it's not my fault. But what's the hour? Come, I must make a few calls, and will introduce you." We sauntered on to Grosvenor Square, knocked, and were admitted into a large, elegantly-furnished mansion.
Once Lina would have flown to Mabel's side, and poured into her ear words of comfort, but her heart had grown hard and selfish, and so she only said, "Poor Mabel, she never was as fortunate as I" and her eye glanced proudly around the elegantly-furnished room, falling at last upon Eddie, whom she clasped to her bosom passionately, but without thought of Him who had decreed that not then should she be written childless.
Then she led the way into the long, bright, elegantly-furnished, flower-decked room. They followed her in a row. Midway in the room they made a halt. They caught a view of themselves full length at that revealed by the great mirrors. They had never seen themselves set in contrast before.
Even before Hadrian, under the prefect's guidance, had reached the last room in which restorations were being carried out, Pontius was ready with his arrangements, and could assure the Emperor that to-night he would find a good bed and very tolerable quarters, and that by to-morrow he should have a really elegantly-furnished room.
You've not had breakfast, of course; we are just about to sit down. This way," he added, throwing open the door of a comfortable and elegantly-furnished parlour. "Bring the boxes into the passage that will do. Here, Lizette, pay the men, dear; two dollars a-piece, I fancy " "Excuse me," interrupted Captain Bunting, "only one bas to be paid, the other is one of my sailors."
These houses are six stories high, and usually contain three reception-rooms; a dining-room, small, and not striking in appearance in any way, as dinner-parties are seldom given in New York; a small, elegantly-furnished drawing-room, used as a family sitting-room, and for the reception of morning visitors; and a magnificent reception-room, furnished in the height of taste and elegance, for dancing, music, and evening parties.
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