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I examined first, the parlour, and then its occupant. The parlour was rather a small room, very plainly furnished, yet comfortable, because clean and neat. The old-fashioned chairs were very bright, and the walnut-wood table was like a looking-glass.
Hope was in the Pandora's box to qualify all evils. By the firelight the settlers were this evening carrying on various occupations. Mr. Holt's seemed the most curious, and was the centre of attraction, though Robert was cutting shingles, and Arthur manufacturing a walnut-wood stool in primitive tripod style.
Urania contributed a more costly gift, in the shape of a perfume cabinet, all cut-glass, walnut-wood, and ormolu. 'Urania's presents are always meant to crush one, said Blanche disrespectfully; 'they are like the shields and bracelets those rude soldiers flung at poor Tarpeia. Urania was to be one of the picnic party. She was to be the only stranger present.
Above, on the surface of polished walnut-wood, between the tapestry and the ceiling, are hung suits of mail, helmets, shields, swords, lances, and tattered banners. Every separate piece has its history. Each lance, in the hand of some mediaeval hero of the name, has transfixed a foe, every sword has been dyed in the life-blood of a Ghibelline.
The floor was bare, but shone by reason of repeated scrubbing, and the black mantel-piece was a fine specimen of colonial carving in the staunchest of walnut-wood. Directly the two younger girls though the youngest must have been twenty years of age came back with averted eyes and the silliest of giggles. They sat a little distance apart, and occasionally nodded or signalled like school children.
She preceding him, they walked through an untidy dining-room of which the furniture the sham Renaissance chairs and walnut-wood buffet looked strangely alien to Vanderlyn's guide, into a short, ill-lighted passage, which terminated in a locked, handleless door.
Then only would he sit before the little walnut-wood table "spotted with ink and scarred with knife-cuts, just big enough to hold the inkstand, a halfpenny bottle, and his open notebook": that same little table at which, in other days, by force of meditation, he achieved his first degrees.
Against the walls are also placed cabinets and caskets of carved walnut-wood and ebony inlaid with lapis-lazuli, jasper, and precious stones; also long, narrow coffers, richly carved, within which the corredo, or trousseau, of rich brides who had matched with a Guinigi, was laid. Beyond the retiring-room is the presence-chamber.
What a fearful penalty that the man should continually see before him in the heavens that shining witness, eternally recalling him to his first sin, the first fateful error of his ruined life! The next day Michael left the island: he passed by the unfinished walnut-wood house without even glancing at it. "You will return with the spring flowers," whispered Noémi tenderly in his ear.
Peter brought the sheets down in a bundle, and placing a row of hideous walnut-wood chairs with their legs in the fender, he proceeded to tinge the fine linen sheets a deep brown. 'They are warmed through, he said grimly, when the smell of scorched linen became intrusive.
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