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On reaching the bedroom, hung with faded rose silk hangings, and furnished with sixteenth century oak, she looked at everything: with a curious wistfulness and reverence. Approaching the dressing-table, she glanced at her own reflection in the mirror; but fair as the reflection was that glanced back at her, she gave it no smile.
There is a look of retirement about the beds, which stand in dim recesses of the inner apartment, with their old but well-cared-for chintz hangings, differing from the free uncurtained openness of the blue nose settler's couch; a publicity of sleeping arrangements being common all over America, and much disliked by persons from the old countries, a bed being a prominent piece of furniture in the sitting and keeping rooms of even those aristocratic personages, the first settlers.
The girls and Denny were already much cleaner than when we parted from them. There was a courtyard to the inn and a wooden staircase outside the house. We were taken up this, and washed our hands in a big room with a fourpost wooden bed and dark red hangings just the sort of hangings that would not show the stains of gore in the dear old adventurous times.
Go to her boudoir, where pictures and statuary, silken hangings and perfumes delight every sense, and where costly robes are flung around with a profusion that betokens lavish expenditure; ask her which she deems happiest, and she will point her jewelled finger towards you, and if she speaks with candour tell you that for your single soul and free spirits, she would barter all her riches.
Her ignorance was rather appalling at first. It was all unreal the room with its cold steam pipes, the heavy window hangings, the very words on the hot and cold taps in the bathroom. A great vessel moved into the harbor. As it turned she saw its name printed on its side in huge letters, and the flag, also painted, of a neutral country a hoped-for protection against German submarines.
Through the lace-like branches of the trees, he looked at the green shades, the lustres, the unpolished sconces, with the backgrounds of red and gold hangings, and the great, gold frames, and he imagined that they were discussing the causes of his defeat and the success of Granet. "They are speaking of me, in there! They are talking about my fall! He is fallen! Fallen! Beaten!
In this room the walls were draped with silken hangings richly embroidered. The single window was glazed with a dull grey glass . On a beaufet were ranged horns tipped with silver, and a few vessels of pure gold. A small circular table in the centre was supported by symbolical monsters quaintly carved.
On the coffin, the sword, the coat, the embroidered hat, parade undress which had never been worn shone with gold and mother-of-pearl in the darkened little tent formed by the hangings and among the bright tints of fresh flowers telling of spring in spite of the sullenness of the sky.
We forget the dirty days of straw-strewn floors, and see the leather hangings stamped with gold; we forget the fearful feet of sandal shoon, but see the dust of a Triumph rising in clouds of glory. We look at that past, feeling something like gods, too. "The gods are happy: They turn on all sides Their shining eyes, And see, below them, The earth and men."
It was a grand picture, one that had been bought by the lords of Beechgrove, and the present Lord Arleigh took great delight in it. He watched the long folds of Madaline's white dress, as she passed along the gallery, and then the hangings fell behind her. Once more he held up the packet. "A wedding present from Philippa, Duchess of Hazlewood, to Lord Arleigh."
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