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She had a very light, elegant-looking stern, adorned with a great deal of carved scroll-work about the cabin windows; and her gracefully-curved cut-water was surmounted by an exquisitely-carved full-length figure of Peneus' lovely daughter, with both arms outstretched, as in the act of flight, and with twigs and leaves of laurel just springing from her dainty finger-tips.
When Phanes had finished, he gave him a penetrating look and said: "Where are my papers?" They are in Onuphis' hands. He is looking among them for the document I want." "I expected to hear that. Be so good as to tell me what the box is like, which Hib thought proper to bring over to Persia?" "It is a small ebony trunk, with an exquisitely-carved lid.
There was a neat walnut bookcase with well-filled shelves, on the top of which stood a large glass case containing a huge stuffed albatross, and just opposite was a small but exquisitely-carved Venetian cabinet adorned with grotesque heads of men and animals, and surmounted by a small square case in which was a beautifully-mounted specimen of the little spotted brown owl of Greece, the species so common among the ruins of the Acropolis.
I could not but notice the strange arrangement of the curios on the shelf of the cabinet. All the scarabs, rings, amulets, &c. were arranged in an uneven oval round an exquisitely-carved golden miniature figure of a hawk-headed God crowned with a disk and plumes.
The lifeless form was concealed beneath a costly coverlid, in the centre of which lay an exquisitely-carved ivory crucifix. The visitors bowed mutely before the corpse. Belotti approached it and, as he saw the padrona's well-known hands, a convulsive sob shook the old man's breast.
An exquisitely-carved rhinoceros horn in the shape of a goblet might possibly come in useful, for the legend associated with it runs that should poison be put in it, and some unkind friend request you to drink, the deadly liquor would disappear of its own accord. We looked in at the small library, and then went into the dining-room.
The lifeless form was concealed beneath a costly coverlid, in the centre of which lay an exquisitely-carved ivory crucifix. The visitors bowed mutely before the corpse. Belotti approached it and, as he saw the padrona's well-known hands, a convulsive sob shook the old man's breast.
The lifeless form was concealed beneath a costly coverlid, in the centre of which lay an exquisitely-carved ivory crucifix. The visitors bowed mutely before the corpse. Belotti approached it and, as he saw the padrona's well-known hands, a convulsive sob shook the old man's breast.
When Phanes had finished, he gave him a penetrating look and said: "Where are my papers?" "They are in Onuphis' hands. He is looking among them for the document I want." "I expected to hear that. Be so good as to tell me what the box is like, which Hib thought proper to bring over to Persia?" "It is a small ebony trunk, with an exquisitely-carved lid.
When Phanes had finished, he gave him a penetrating look and said: "Where are my papers?" They are in Onuphis' hands. He is looking among them for the document I want." "I expected to hear that. Be so good as to tell me what the box is like, which Hib thought proper to bring over to Persia?" "It is a small ebony trunk, with an exquisitely-carved lid.
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