quickly-recognised

Updated: May 23, 2025

It marched across from end to end and seemed with its bright colours, its high panelled windows, its faded flowered chintzes, its quickly-recognised portraits and pictures, the blue-and-white china of its cabinets and the attenuated festoons and rosettes of its ceiling a cheerful upholstered avenue into the other century.

Henry James - The Lesson of the Master