mber-hued wood overlaid with elaborate gilt traceries; they ended in a wide golden frieze that curved inward to inclose a ceiling painted with roguish goddesses after the manne

of some ancient sybarite regarded without surp

es crossed the large amber rug, like mo

le embroidered with iridescent beads. Parting into groups, they dotted the drawing-room with the gorgeousness of peacock blue and jade green

and sofas. Others stood beside the large chimney piece, talking to t

ace to enjoy the moonlit landscape, wherein Nature her

ed valley, lay other gardens, deriving a vague stateliness from their successive balustrades and sculptured fountains. The moonlight, while blanching the g

disdain of everything not comprised in her luxurious little world. She had just seen one of her most recent lions, old Brantome, on his way toward the music room a

I fin

, my surpri

er of the big chandelier her coiffure appeared extraordinarily blonde, her green eyes, especially frosty; and the eighteenth century ladies in the g

e dim library with Cornelius Rysbro