pink-and-gilt

Updated: May 10, 2025

He pressed a button, and the room sprang into more light, coming out pinkly and vividly the brocaded walls pliant to touch with every so often a gilt-framed engraving; a gilt table with an onyx top cheerfully cluttered with the sauciest short-story magazines of the month; a white mantelpiece with an artificial hearth and a pink-and-gilt chaise-longue piled high with small, lacy pillows, and a very green magazine open and face downward on the floor beside it.

Fannie Hurst - Gaslight Sonatas