At the other extremity, screened off as in a distinct apartment, there stood a smaller couch, a Napoleon bed, with carved ends, furnished more simply but with equal richness.
Everywhere was the air not only of comfort, but of ease and luxury, elegance and sensuousness contending.

I needed no lesson to tell me that this was not an ordinary apartment, nor occupied by an ordinary owner.
One resented the liberties England took in establishing this manner of menage in our simple city, and arrogantly taking for granted our ignorance regarding it; but none the less one was forced to commend the thoroughness shown.

The ceilings, of course, remained low, but there was visible no trace of the original architecture, so cunningly had the interior been treated.

As I have said, the dividing partitions had all been removed, so that the long interior practically was open, save as the apartments were separated by curtains or grilles.

The floors were carpeted thick and deep.