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Updated: September 3, 2025
'Twas indeed his Majesty's guardsman with his order, and Cedric listened with flushed face and beating heart, not to what he said, but for the sound of a silken rustle upon the great hall parquetry; and as he heard it, he raised his voice and said sternly to the courier,
Swooping forward, he retrieved this, darted back from the exposed space beneath the shattered skylight, and had no more than cleared the threshold than a second something fell through the gap and buried itself in the parquetry.
It is durable and can be easily cleaned. But if the hall be of the medium or generous size, parquetry will be found more approvable if the expense can be afforded. The designs are richer without being so glaring as many of the tile effects, and the wood seems to have less harshness.
M. de Kercadiou moistened his lips. "With whom is this engagement?" he asked in a voice that by an effort he contrived to render steady. M. de La Tour d'Azyr bowed his handsome head, his eyes upon the gleaming parquetry of the floor. "With myself," he answered quietly, conscious already with a tightening of the heart that his answer must sow dismay.
For a moment only his Lordship's glance fell upon her, then it swept the room from end to end, and from ceiling to parquetry.
I see you have got carpets on all the floors." "Yes, why not? Carpets are put on most floors at least they used to be when I was young." "But Antonia says that we ought to have parquetry and slippery rugs." "And do you mean to tell me," exclaimed Jane, "that you are going to heed the words of that poor daft lassie?
"Very well," said Rokeby, as Marie's footsteps sounded on the parquetry of the corridor, "I'm going, but I shall come again, and again! You won't get rid of me, I say, till you've married me. And then you'll never be rid of me." He swung round, laughing, and opened the door for Marie. "Now, Mrs. Kerr, I'm to see you well on your way home."
He saw the streets of Paris and New York, brilliant under their strings of opalescent lights; the Champs Elysees ran in its smooth, tree-trimmed parquetry from the Place de Concorde to the Arc de Triomphe, and the chatter and music of its cafes rang in his ears.
Ink had been poured in grotesque pattern on rugs and parquetry and window curtains. In one corner lay a typewriter, its keys twisted and its carriage broken. Through the daze of general horror boomed the tremblingly majestic voice of Rutherford Garretse. "I wanted you to see!" he declaimed. "I ordered everything left as it was.
"Why, here is a flower!" and the child lifted a crushed immortelle from the parquetry and gave it to the priest, who quickly made the sign of the cross and said something almost inaudible about the flower being prophetic; and then he leant close to the child's ear, saying, "Will Lady Margaret do something for Father Pomphrey?" "Aye, anything "
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