I can show you long empty galleries, pictureless, and without a scrap of furniture.

We have ghosts like rats, rooms where the curtains and tapestries are falling to pieces from sheer decay.

Oh! I can assure you that our primitivism is not wholly external." He turned from the Princess, who was not greatly interested, to find that for once he had succeeded in riveting the attention of the girl, whose general attitude towards him and the whole world seemed to be one of barely tolerant indifference.
"I should like to see over your house, Mr.De la Borne," she said.

"It all sounds very interesting." "I am afraid," he answered, "that your interest would not survive very long.

We have no treasures left, nor anything worth looking at.