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By Lady Dacre's will certain presentations to some almshouses in Westminster are left to the parish on condition of the tombs being kept in good repair. The tomb was redecorated and restored in 1868. The south and west walls are covered with monuments, and careless feet tread on inscribed stones in the aisle.
After I had shaken off the dust which had lazily followed us, in our descent of the mountain road, like a red smoke, occasionally overflowing the coach windows, I went up to the room I had engaged for my brief holiday. I knew the place well, although I could see that the hotel itself had lately been redecorated and enlarged to meet the increasing requirements of fashion.
The house was all redecorated when we came in. Not one of the workmen has become suddenly wealthy." "I shall no longer begrudge these poor old souls their silent watch over these walls that hold their treasure," I now remarked. "Then you have lost your nervousness?" "Quite." "So have I," laughed Mrs. Packard, showing me for the first time a face of complete complacency and contentment.
Have a drink, George? No! Wise man! Liss'n." I was always ready to listen. All sorts of financial marvels came out of the Hardingham, more particularly during my uncle's last great flurry, but they were nothing to the projects that passed in. It was the little brown and gold room he sat in usually. He had had it redecorated by Bordingly and half a dozen Sussex pictures by Webster hung about it.
Harrington stood for a moment looking into the other room. Luke and Agatha were talking together with some animation. "I have been very busy lately," she said conversationally. "Perhaps you have failed to notice that I have had this room redecorated?" He looked round the apartments with a smile, which somehow conveyed a colossal contempt. "Very charming," he said.
York House was redecorated and furnished about this time, and as it is described as "Excelling any other dwelling of its own class in regal magnificence and vieing with the Royal Palaces of Europe," we may take note of an account of its re-equipment, written in 1841 for the Art Journal.
As soon as she was safe in Pere la Chaise, he enlarged his hotel by the purchase and annexation of an adjoining house; redecorated and refurnished it, and in this task displayed, it must be said to his credit, or to that of the administrators he selected for the purpose, a nobleness of taste rarely exhibited nowadays.
The Baroness, shown into Josepha's handsome drawing-room, did not note how long she was kept waiting there, though it was a long half hour. This room, entirely redecorated even since Josepha had had the house, was hung with silk in purple and gold color.
He hurried forward, sat down close to her, and laid a hand over hers which held the knitting. "What's that?" he asked. "George's winter stockings; they're to have turn-down tops like grown-up ones." He took the knitting and pretended to examine the pattern, though he was not thinking of anything save her. The year's parting had been a miracle. Love had slyly redecorated his house throughout.
It was a fancy, but it held, and under its compelling if irrational influence, I made a second and still more minute survey of the room to which this conviction had imparted so definite an interest. I found it just as ordinary and unsuggestive as before; an old-fashioned, square apartment renovated and redecorated to suit modern tastes.
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