room-furniture

Updated: July 11, 2025

But it must, ah it must, be done. Her face suddenly turned as sallow as the dead were, when the shroud was already on, and the coffin had become a stale added piece of room-furniture by the bed-side; but in recording that fact, I record also this other: that, accompanying this mortal sallowness, which painfully shewed up her poor freckles, was a steady smile, a little turned-down: a smile of steady, of slightly disdainful Confidence.

M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel - The Purple Cloud