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There had been discovered in the umbrella-stand an umbrella with a gold band and a gold tassle, and the name of a certain statesman engraved upon it. There had never been such a super-umbrella in our house before. Before its golden splendours we were at once humbled and terrified humbled by its magnificence, terrified by its presence.
"Rum go about Ninian's uncle, isn't it?" he said, playing with the tassle of the blind. "Eh?" said Henry. "There must be something low in a man who marries a woman like that, don't you think?" "Oh, I don't know. Why should there be?" "Obvious, isn't it? I mean, there can't be much in common otherwise, can there? Unless the man's a sentimental ass.
He is very old, was dressed in a robe-de-chambre of blue sattan and gold spots on it, with a sort of blue sattan cap and tassle of gold. He spoke all the time in English.... His house is not very fine, but genteel, and stands upon a mount close to the mountains. He is tall and very thin, has a very piercing eye, and a look singularly vivacious. He says he admires Swift, and loved Gay vastly.
Two yellow wax candles were burning on a round table in front of a low sofa. In the corner stood a bedstead under a muslin canopy with silk stripes and a long amber rosary with a red tassle at the end hung by the pillow. "But excuse me, who are you?" repeated Kuzma Vassilyevitch. "Sister ... sister of Emilie." "You are her sister? And you live here?" "Yes ... yes."
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