The Custom of the Country - Edith Wharton - Books - Independently Published - 9798724806862 - March 21, 2021
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Edith Wharton
The Custom of the Country

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Mrs. Spragg and her visitor were enthroned in two heavy gilt armchairs in one ofthe private drawing-rooms of the Hotel Stentorian. The Spragg rooms were knownas one of the Looey suites, and the drawing-room walls, above their wainscoting ofhighly-varnished mahogany, were hung with salmon-pink damask and adornedwith oval portraits of Marie Antoinette and the Princess de Lamballe. In the centreof the florid carpet a gilt table with a top of Mexican onyx sustained a palm in a giltbasket tied with a pink bow. But for this ornament, and a copy of "The Hound of theBaskervilles" which lay beside it, the room showed no traces of human use, and Mrs. Spragg herself wore as complete an air of detachment as if she had been a waxfigure in a show-window. Her attire was fashionable enough to justify such a post, and her pale soft-cheeked face, with puffy eye-lids and drooping mouth, suggesteda partially-melted wax figure which had run to double-chi

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released March 21, 2021
ISBN13 9798724806862
Publishers Independently Published
Pages 364
Dimensions 127 × 203 × 21 mm   ·   394 g
Language English  

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