plush-draped

Updated: May 21, 2025

"For" him that was the extraordinary thing, and not less so that he was already, within three minutes, after this fashion, taking it in as by the intensity of a new light; a light that was one somehow with this rich inner air of the plush-draped and much-mirrored hotel, where the fire-glow and the approach of evening confirmed together the privacy, and the loose curtains at the wide window were parted for a command of his old lifelong Parade the field of life so familiar to him from below and in the wind and the wet, but which he had never in all the long years hung over at this vantage.

Henry James - The Finer Grain