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All the apartments and passages were crowded with servants, who, without the slightest ceremony, came into the audience-hall, that they might observe us more closely; we sat in a complete crowd. We were offered sweetmeats and fruits, sprinkled with rosewater, and some attar of roses was put upon our handkerchiefs.
"We will turn it into a garden filled with ornamental foliage." "That is quite admissable and the broken statues?" "We will get rid of the worst." The Apollo and the nine Muses stand in the room you intend for an audience-hall do they not?" "Yes." "They are in fairly good condition, I think." "Urania is wanting entirely," said the steward, who was still holding the plan out in front of him.
The architecture is simple, appropriate, and beautiful The dwelling consists of the Sultan's house, a broad, open passage, and then the women's house or harem. At the end of the above passage is the audience-hall, and the front entrance to the Sultan's house is through a large porch which forms a convenient reception room on occasions like that of yesterday.
He was amused by the fizz of the thing, but after a sip or two would let it get flat, and with a courteous wave of his hand ask for a fresh bottle. He decimated our slender stock; but we did not begrudge it to him, for, when he began, he talked well. The quiet dignity of his bearing transformed the dim-lit cuddy of the schooner into an audience-hall.
"Hush, Schluter!" exclaimed the count, anxiously, "I know the portrait of the White Lady, which hangs in the cabinet adjoining the audience-hall, and it is, therefore, unnecessary for you to describe her appearance to me." "Your excellency knows that we have two portraits of the White Lady," said the castellan, laconically.
From first to last the chambers of state; the fringed arches; the open tracery, light and frail as the frost-stars crystallized on a window-pane; the courts, fit to be vestibules to Paradise; the audience-hall, with its wondrous sculptures, its columns and pavement of marble, and its gilded dome; the garden, gorgeous with its palm, banana, and orange-trees all were in perfect keeping, all jewels of equal lustre, forming a diadem which still lends a royal dignity to the phantom of Moorish power.
Almost ever since her own recovery, Helen has confined herself to my uncle's sick chamber, now totally deserted by the fair countess, who seems to have forgotten all duties in the adulation of the audience-hall." Wallace remarked on the indisposition of Mar, and the attention of his daughter, with tenderness.
When the reading of the document was concluded, a high noble stepped forward, took it from the envoy's hands and advanced with it towards the audience-hall, from which another noble came out to meet him, received the letter, deposited it on a table before the chief entrance, and then reported the facts to the Empress. This ended the ceremony.
"We will turn it into a garden filled with ornamental foliage." "That is quite admissable and the broken statues?" "We will get rid of the worst." "The Apollo and the nine Muses stand in the room you intend for an audience-hall do they not?" "Yes." "They are in fairly good condition, I think." "Urania is wanting entirely," said the steward, who was still holding the plan out in front of him.
At all events, during my stay at Seoul, the Japanese Minister came by his death through a cold which he contracted by having to stand an inordinate time in the cold room, in his evening dress, and then walk minus his overcoat or wrappers, through the interminable paved passage leading to the audience-hall. Here let me digress. This ambassador's funeral, was, indeed, a comical sight.
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