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Milton had not entered the house before, and had not seen the persons on the sofas. He followed the lieutenant into the room where the man lay. Going nearer to him than before, he discovered that the gentleman was strapped to the sofa so that he could not move. "It is Mr. Halliburn!" was the whispered exclamation of Win. "Hush!
But when they opened the door, all was quiet no one behind the curtain, no one in the room they searched under the sofas, everywhere; there was no closet or hiding-place in which any one could be concealed. The window fastenings were unstirred.
The Peers' seats are four rows of long sofas on each side, covered with red morocco; comfortable seats enough, but not adapted to any other than a decorously exact position. The woolsack is between these two divisions of sofas, in the middle passage of the floor, a great square seat, covered with scarlet, and with a scarlet cushion set up perpendicularly for the Chancellor to lean against.
By an inclination of his forehead he pointed to two ladies of rank, whose names he mentioned to me, but with whom I was perfectly unacquainted, seated on the sofas at different points of the parallelogram.
"Confidante" and "Duchesse," which were sofas of the time. "Gouty stool," a stool having an adjustable top. "Tea chest," "Urn stand," and other names which have now disappeared from ordinary use in describing similar articles. Hepplewhite had a specialité, to which he alludes in his book, and of which he gives several designs.
But the house drew a frequented air from the number of fine people who were freely named there and from several mysterious men with foreign titles and English clothes whom Morgan called the princes and who, on sofas with the girls, talked French very loud though sometimes with some oddity of accent as if to show they were saying nothing improper.
These nearer things were many, for Valentine's original asceticism, which had displayed itself essentially in the slight bareness of his principal sitting-room had apparently been swept away by a tumultuous greed for ornaments. The room was crowded with furniture, chairs, and sofas of the most peculiar shapes, divans and tables, bookstands and settees.
It might as well be west as in any other direction. And this is such a chance! We can't have mamma lying around on sofas without any roses in her cheeks, can we?" He put this last to the children, who, being yet at the age when they talked in "Early English," as their father called it, made a clamorous but inarticulate reply.
The table stood in the middle of the hall, and sofas in a continuous line were placed near it on either side. On these sofas were the guests, not sitting as we do with their feet on the floor beneath the table, but reclining with their feet projecting a little behind, the sandals having previously been drawn off by servants, for coolness and comfort.
She answered nothing she was flushed, and breathing quickly from the excitement of the dance, and he paused on his way to pick up a light wrap he found on one of the sofas, and put it round her shoulders. "You mustn't catch a chill," he went on. "But it's not a cold night in fact it's very close and sultry almost like thunder. A little air will be good for us."
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