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Take away the bed, and the same tester would have served in a church for the canopy of the pulpit or the seats of the wardens. The married pair mounted by three steps to this sumptuous couch, which stood upon a platform and was hung with curtains of green silk covered with brilliant designs called "ramages" possibly because the birds of gay plumage there depicted were supposed to sing.
But the structure has an ancient ponderosity, and the dust of the eighteenth century seems to lie on its worm-eaten floors, to cling to the faded old <i>papiers a ramages</i> on the walls and to lodge in the crevices of the brown wooden ceilings.
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