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Updated: May 16, 2025
The squash-racket court was an example of another kind of luxury, very different from the cunning combinations of pictured walls, books, carved wood, and deep-piled carpets, but not less authentic. The dining-hall seating a thousand simultaneously was another. Here I witnessed the laying of dinner-tables by negroes.
The scene was really delightful enlarged by full-length portraits with deep backgrounds, inserted in the cedar paneling surmounted by a ceiling that glowed with the rich colors of the coats of arms ranged between the sockets illuminated almost as much by the red fire of oak-boughs as by the pale wax-lights stilled by the deep-piled carpet and by the high English breeding that subdues all voices; while the mixture of ages, from the white-haired Lord and Lady Pentreath to the four-year-old Edgar Raymond, gave a varied charm to the living groups.
The figures of the carpets were the same, their deep-piled richness, soft under foot, the same. The flowered cups of the sconces were identical with those I had seen before.
Pausing here, Maxwell gazed down on the one hand to the rich fields and well-timbered lands of Hoddam; on the other hand across Solway to where below the deep-piled, purple masses of Helvellyn and Skiddaw lay 'merry Carlisle' the abode of my Lord Wharton. Maxwell shook his fist across Solway, as though in defiance. Then he turned about and rode slowly home.
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