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Updated: May 12, 2025
I never knew so many hours pass so pleasantly as in this tribune, surrounded by those whispering, elbowing, plunging, veiled women in black, under the wall painted with Perugino's Charge of St. Peter, and dadoed with imitation Spanish leather, superb gold and blue scrolls of Rhodian pomegranate pattern and Della Rovere shields with the oak-tree.
Her quick, light step and the silken rustling of the lining of her gown broke the spell that had bound the man who sat motionless in the armchair before the Sheraton writing-table, staring with fixed eyes and gripping the arms of his chair with unconscious force ... A faint, pleasant odour of Russia leather and camphor-wood came from the dwarf bookcases that dadoed the walls.
Christ in Flanders, Honoré de Balzac. A New England Nun, Mary Wilkins Freeman. Outcasts of Poker Flat, Bret Harte. The Siege of Berlin, Alphonse Dadoed. The Prisoner of Assiout, Grant Allen. A Terribly Strange Bed, Wilkie Collins. The Prisoners, Guy de Maupassant. Mr. Isaacs, F. Marion Crawford. Where Love Is, There God Is Also, Leo Tolstoi.
"I seem to see you turned loose alone in this amusing town on a winter afternoon. I seem to see you!" "I could stop in and read," I said, eyeing the multitudinous books on every wall of the dining-room. The house was dadoed throughout with books. "Rot!" said Brindley. This was only my third visit to his home and to the Five Towns, but he and I had already become curiously intimate.
The Bear Hunter, Björnson. Master and Man, Leo Tolstoi. The Doll's House, Henrik Ibsen. The Minister's Black Veil, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Ambitious Guest, Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Beeman of Orn, Frank R. Stockton. A Branch Road, Hamlin Garland. Mateo Falcone, Prosper Mérimée. The Death of the Dauphin, Alphonse Dadoed. The Birds' Christmas Carol, Kate Douglas Wiggin.
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