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  • glide over the grey fitted
    carpet in the narrow,

  • long and high-ceilinged corridor.

  • Three prints, depicting, respectively,
    the Derby winner Thunderbird

  • a paddle steamer named Ville-de-Motitereau,
    and Stephenson lcomotive

    • lead to

  • a leather curtain hanging on
    thick, black, grainy wooden rigns.




    • about twenty three feet long by ten feet wide.


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     there would be


    large sofa
    upholstered
    in worn black
    leather,
    with pale cherrywood bookcases on


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    heaped with books
    in untidy piles.
    Then, on the


                                        
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    of another door,beyond a low, square revolving bookcase
    suoporting a large, cylinderical vase decorated
    in blue and filled with yellow roses,
    set beneath an oblong mirror
    in mahogany frame,there
    would be a narrow table
    with its two benches
    upholstered in tartan,
    which would
    bring your