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Updated: June 21, 2025
The grandfather's house and garden the stately, white-haired grandfather, whom they called My Lord, and who was, it seemed, the aunt's father the banquet, the picture-gallery, the gardens lit up by little colored oil lamps hung in festoons from tree to tree, the blazing torches, the music, the Masque a sort of play without words in which every one wore the most wonderful and beautiful dresses, and the Queen herself took a part dressed all in gauze and jewels and white swan's feathers all these things were like a dream to Dickie, and through it all the words kept on saying themselves to him very gently, very quietly, and quite without stopping
The men, on their side, took books to hand, and observed like silence. One evening I asked Lord Moira's sister, since the moon was shining brightly, whether we might not walk in the park. She replied that the shutters were closed and that caution demanded they should not be reopened, because the picture-gallery was on the ground floor.
It is veritably a large picture-gallery of his works in itself. An idea of its numerical magnitude may be got by dividing it up into its component units and making an inventory of them.
Omar offered her his arm, and murmured as he pointed to some pictures. "Allah il Allah. I come from the painter Gontram. Mohammed resoul il Allah." "The pasha evidently wishes you to show him the picture-gallery," said Larsagny. "Then come," said the young girl to the Oriental. As soon as Omar was alone with his companion, he whispered: "Pardon me, I have to speak to you."
When I bowed to him just now he didn't return it, but only stared at me as if I were a stranger." Robin Pierce made no rejoinder. They descended the great staircase and went towards the picture-gallery. "Find a corner where we can really talk." "Yes, yes." He spoke eagerly. "Here this is perfect." They sat down at a table for two that was placed in an angle of the great room.
Sponge came to a red-baized, brass-nailed door, which, opening freely on a patent spring, revealed the fine proportions of a light picture-gallery with which the bright mahogany doors of the entertaining rooms communicated.
Since this was done, the accumulated refuse collected from the periodical cleansings of the house, during a term of nearly three years including, of course, the ashes from the fires kept burning, for the greater part of the year, in the library and the picture-gallery have been poured upon the heap, and have buried the precious morsels of paper deeper and deeper, day by day.
It was the only thing for which they would think him fit! The thing he should like to do would be to travel on some interesting commission for his grandfather. On what commission, for instance? The purchasing of rare works of art for the picture-gallery of the great store? No mean exhibition it was they had there.
When the footman had wheeled the chair into the picture-gallery and left the two together in obedience to orders, Colin and Mary looked at each other delighted. As soon as Mary had made sure that John was really on his way back to his own quarters below stairs, Colin got out of his chair.
Otto was pale, but he was otherwise master of himself. 'Herr von Gondremark, said he, 'oblige me so far: reconduct the Princess to her own apartment. The Baron, still all at sea, offered his hand, which was smilingly accepted, and the pair sailed forth through the picture-gallery.
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