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In one of the quadrilles the ladies and gentlemen were dressed as children, in short socks and frocks with enormous sashes. Princess Metternich was costumed as a milkmaid; she had real silver pails hung over her shoulders. Duchesse de Persigny was a chiffonniere with a hotte on her back and a gray dress very much looped up, showing far above her wooden shoes.
"Very well," said Victoria, suddenly dazed, and with a will relaxed after the long tension of the day. "I will go." "Where are your jewels?" "Down in the bank." "Well, gather up any other small things you treasure, and either conceal them about you or give them to me." "I shall not take anything. My laces are in the chiffonnière. I do not care to enter the house again."
Nor was it soothing to Henry, who, instead of going to sleep, began to survey the room, and get food for annoyance. 'I say, said he, looking across at a little brass-barred bookcase of ornamental volumes on the opposite chiffonniere, 'what book is out there? 'Scott's "Lay", said Leonard; 'it is up in my room.
Its delicate walls were tinged like a blush; its floor was waxed; a square of brilliant carpet covered its centre; its small round table shone like the mirror over its hearth; there was a little couch, a little chiffonniere, the half-open, crimson-silk door of which, showed porcelain on the shelves; there was a French clock, a lamp; there were ornaments in biscuit china; the recess of the single ample window was filled with a green stand, bearing three green flower-pots, each filled with a fine plant glowing in bloom; in one corner appeared a gueridon with a marble top, and upon it a work-box, and a glass filled with violets in water.
This room was carpeted, and therein was a piano, a couch, a chiffonniere above all, it contained a lofty window with a crimson curtain, which, being undrawn, afforded another glimpse of the garden, through the large, clear panes, round which some leaves of ivy, some tendrils of vine were trained. "Monsieur Creemsvort, n'est ce pas?" said a voice behind me; and, starting involuntarily, I turned.
There is Caroline's desk, and here is mine; and we have made room for you here. I suppose you have a desk. And here are all our books, and our chiffonniere; Caroline has one side and I the other. Oh, I must show you my last birthday presents. Ah! aren't we lucky to have got such a nice view of the terrace and the portico from here!
Crane, with a strange, dreary accent. "I, too, once tried if fire could burn up thought, but it did not succeed with me; that is years ago; and- there see the bottles are full still!" While thus speaking, she had unlocked a chiffonniere of the shape usually found in "genteel lodgings," and taken out a leathern spirit-case containing four bottles, with a couple of wine-glasses.
When he was gone, Rosamond left her chair and walked to the other end of the room, leaning when she got there against a chiffonniere, and looking out of the window wearily.
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