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Updated: May 6, 2025
I again observed attentively some chasms, in appearance like so many vulcanic forges, which emitted no smoke, but continually shot out a steam of hot glowing air. They were all tapestried, as it were, with a kind of stalactite, which covered the funnel to the top, with its knobs and chintz-like variation of colors.
He lifted his white fluted china tea-cup, which had queer little chintz-like bunches of flowers over it and a worn gilt handle, and took a pinch of tea from the caddy; then, pouring some boiling water over it, he set it on the hob to steep. "Denner," he said slowly, "which advice do you want? Whether to do it at all, or which lady to choose?" "Which lady, of course," answered Mr. Denner promptly.
Earth opens her dry lips and says it. In one of the tombs there is a little chamber whose ceiling, probably because of a fault in the rock, could not be smoothed off like the others. So the decorator, very cunningly, covered it with a closely designed cloth-pattern just such a chintz-like piece of stuff as, in real life, one would use to underhang a rough roof with.
"'Indian summer' would have been a better name." "Tell me about it." "Why do you always want to know?" "I am writing a book." "Tant pis." She was out of temper. The flowers arrived. Old-fashioned pink roses, coral carnations, purple stocks, pink pinks, mauve orchids, moss roses, patterned chintz-like phlox. "Oh!" she said, and for a moment she shut her eyes. Then: "Tell me about her," she said.
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