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Updated: May 15, 2025
I come on really important business, which will bear no delay. If you cannot see me till your dinner-hour, I will wait." The Spaniard ushered Victor into one of the reception-rooms, which looked cold and chill in the winter daylight. Except the grand piano, there was no trace of feminine occupation in the room.
The words did not escape the girl's sharp ears, and she had heard her father say that the costliest of all the ornamental vessels with which the wealthy Romans were wont to decorate their reception-rooms, were those called Vasa Murrhina; so she explained to him at once, that she knew what high prices were paid for such vases, and that she had no mind to sell it cheaply.
And he himself? He was the same to-day as ten years since: different every day and at every hour of the day. When Verus entered the palace Hadrian had returned thither but a few minutes previously from the city. The praetor was conducted through the reception-rooms to the private apartments, and here he had not long to wait, for Hadrian wished to speak with him immediately.
The girls fell into circular rank behind their mother, and thus following her and carrying out the fragments, they left the reception-rooms in a manner not altogether devoid of dignity. Mrs Proudie had to retire to re-array herself.
This unexpected, and, for many years, unheard-of, burden weighed heavily upon the comfortable citizens; and to none could it be more cumbersome than to my father, who was obliged to take foreign military inhabitants into his scarcely finished house, to open for them his well-furnished reception-rooms, which were generally closed, and to abandon to the caprices of strangers all that he had been used to arrange and keep so carefully.
The two men found the change delightful when they at last emerged from the stifling heat of the reception-rooms into the lovely, cool, and limpid night. It was a night illumined by a superb full moon, one of those matchless Roman nights when the city slumbers in Elysian radiance, steeped in a dream of the Infinite, under the vast vault of heaven.
One day, in one of the most brilliant reception-rooms of the Northern capital, the subject of Father Ivan's miracles having been introduced, a gentleman in very high social position, and entirely trustworthy, spoke as follows: "There is something very surprising about these miracles. I am slow to believe in them; but there is one of them which is overwhelming and absolutely true.
She found no one in the drawing-room or waiting-room, however, or any of the usual reception-rooms, and rang the bell for the butler. "Where are these people, Groves," she asked, "who want to see me?" "They are in the library, madam," the man answered. "You mean in your master's room?" she asked, with a sudden presentiment. "Yes, madam!" the man answered. "You see, they are Mr. Weiss and Mr.
She rarely remained in the reception-rooms; but to-day she had rather capriciously taken a fancy to the broad solitude of the place, and had accordingly installed herself there. She was very much surprised when the doors were suddenly opened wide and the servant announced Prince Saracinesca.
"You know something else?" "I know that I arranged to meet this agent yesterday in the Garden, as our custom is, that I waited there, that he never turned up." Colonel Hofferman took de Loubersac's arm as they walked slowly back to the reception-rooms. "What you have just told me is exceedingly serious: we must enquire into this at once without loss of time.
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