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Its central hall has a carved archway; most of the rooms have painted tiles and are wainscoted to the ceiling; the sashes are red-cedar, the great staircase mahogany; there are pilasters with delicate Corinthian capitals; there are cherubs' heads and wings that go astray and lose themselves in closets and behind glass doors; there are curling acanthus-leaves that cluster over shelves and ledges, and there are those graceful shell-patterns which one often sees on old furniture, but rarely in houses.
It was covered With the incomprehensible emblems of a bygone creed worked in most exquisite shell-patterns, but on it, as though in solemn protest against the past, stood a crucifix of ebony and carved ivory, before which burned steadily a red lamp.
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