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Updated: July 1, 2025
There was a deep alcove from the bed, a window looking down upon the calm waters of the moat, and giving glimpses, through the trees, of fields and woods beyond, a fireplace with a cheerful fire, which had evidently been kindled the moment my arrival was known, the tessellated floor with its waxen gloss, and the usual furniture of a French bed-room, a good table and comfortable chairs.
My husband took me by the hand and led me to the great chamber, where in an alcove stood the state bed, with green damask hangings fringed with gold, and in the midst of pillows trimmed with point-lace sat up Madam la Marquis, her little sallow face, like a bit of old parchment, in the midst of the snowy linen, and not to my eyes wearing a very friendly aspect.
There's a nice alcove aft behind the smoking-room where we may find refuge. Yes, I grant the little girls are just as bad as the boys; there is that pert spoilt little miss who rushes after the steward when he carries round the hors d'oeuvre before dinner and clamours for them. "They're not for children," he told her.
You may live in the hearts and upon the lips of men and women yet unborn; and should the worst come, you may figure in "The Bibliographer's Manual," with a star of honor against your name, to indicate that you are exceedingly scarce and proportionally valuable; rival collectors, with fury in their faces, will run you up to a fabulous price at the auction, and you will at last be put into free quarters for life in some shady alcove upon some lofty shelf, with unlimited rations of dust, as you glide into a vermiculate dotage.
"Let us first discover whether any one can hear us here." He opened the door, and looked into the antechamber. No one was there. He then examined the dark alcove adjoining the sitting-room, which was empty, too. "We are alone; no one can overhear us," said Blucher, returning from his reconnoissance to the sitting-room. "Now, pipe-master, listen to me.
And before he was well aware of what he did, he was in the opening of the alcove, handling that awkward fold and again he drew breath, deep and slow through the nose; again the vague memory again the elusive association. Was the scent sweet as well as musty was it in the curtain?
Truly a fairy bird, appearing and vanishing like a thought, familiar with the heart of all the flowers and taking no food grosser than their nectar, the winged jewel of the poets, the surprise and delight of all beholders it came like a burnished meteor into my leafy alcove and was gone as quickly.
There is another big library up in the house on the hill in fact, there are books upon books all over the home. And wherever they are, those books are read. As one is about to pass out of the library attention is arrested by an incongruity in the form of a cot, which stands in an alcove near the door.
It would take a week to move all their goods over the range to the cabin, but, once there, he believed that they would be safe for a long time; indeed, they might spend years in the valley, if they wished, and never see a stranger. It was afternoon when he approached the pine alcove, but the familiar spire of smoke against the blue had assured him already that Albert was there and safe.
He had drawn the curtains to admit the day and closed the window to bar out its morning freshness, and it was while he was clearing the pockets of the dress clothes that he became aware that from the alcove at his back, in which the bed stood, eyes were watching him.
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