So they passed through the Palace Gates and were led into a big room with a green carpet and lovely green furniture set with emeralds.
"Please make yourselves comfortable while I go to the door of the Throne Room and tell Oz you are here."
The
room in which Montbarry had died was still fitted up as a bedroom, and was now distinguished as Number Fourteen.
But as soon as he moved, the door of his
room opened and Kitty peeped out.
He entered the
room and shut the door, and for a time stood in bewilderment, admiring the grandeur before him.
The natives believed that Tietjens was a familiar spirit, and treated her with the great reverence that is born of hate and fear One
room in the bungalow was set apart for her special use.
"'Tis right ye are, ma'am; 'tis by renting
rooms we kape alive.
Under this arrangement, the front bedroom, on the opposite side of the passage--next to the
room in which Geoffrey slept--was left empty, and was called, for the time being, the spare
room.
He had entered by the open window at the extremity of the 'off-turning' gallery; he had passed Frederic Larsan's door and mine, had turned to the right, and had entered Mademoiselle Stangerson's
room. I am before the door of her ante-room--it is open.
Of the four inhabitable
rooms which were all at the admiral's disposal during the day -- that is to say, of the dining-room, the library, the morning-room, and the drawing-room opening out of the vestibule -- the library appeared to be the apartment in which, if he had a preference, he passed the greater part of his time.
He began to tell little lies about business engagements that would give him freedom to walk alone in the street at night and, the chance offering, he secretly re-rented the
room fac- ing Washington Square.
Only a small space of the
room inside was visible, but within that space came a corner of the breakfast table, which was already spread for the meal, and also a chair beside.
They returned to the hall, that the chief staircase might be ascended, and the beauty of its wood, and ornaments of rich carving might be pointed out: having gained the top, they turned in an opposite direction from the gallery in which her
room lay, and shortly entered one on the same plan, but superior in length and breadth.
Pollyanna, had fairly flown across the
room and flung herself into her aunt's scandalized, unyielding lap.
Bruff's manner convinced me that it was wisest to check the impulse while he was in the
room. In less than two minutes it was all over--and Samuel (unbenefited by what I might have said) had gone downstairs again.