sleepy-hollows

Updated: May 9, 2025

Softest carpets, of most exquisite pattern; curtains of richest lace; lambrequins of costly texture; richly-embroidered and velvet-covered sleepy-hollows and lounging chairs; nothing stiff, nothing that did not betoken abandonment to ease and pleasure; downy cushions; rarest pictures; loveliest statuettes; finest bronzes; delicate vases; magnificent, full length mirrors, a bookcase, itself a rare work of art, containing the best works of the best authors, all in the richest of bindings nothing here that the most refined and cultivated taste could disapprove, and yet everything bespoke the sybarite, the voluptuary.

Lawrence L. Lynch - Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter