I believe he polishes it every morning with a cloth.

Of course they didn't get further than the big drawing-room on the first floor, an enormous drawing-room with three pairs of columns in the middle.

The double doors on the top of the staircase had been thrown wide open, as if for a visit from royalty.

You can picture to yourself my mother, with her white hair done in some 18th century fashion and her sparkling black eyes, penetrating into those splendours attended by a sort of bald-headed, vexed squirrel--and Henry Allegre coming forward to meet them like a severe prince with the face of a tombstone Crusader, big white hands, muffled silken voice, half-shut eyes, as if looking down at them from a balcony.

You remember that trick of his, Mills ?" Mills emitted an enormous cloud of smoke out of his distended cheeks.
"I daresay he was furious, too," Blunt continued dispassionately.