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' 'Dear sir!' said Henri, 'here is an ar,

that it resembles one of the state chairs at the Louvre,ato that chair, but I have not tireater extent than I had iined; it is

many years since I was in them But where is the bed-room you speak of,

Ludovico?--these are only anti-cha-room I

remember them in their splendour!'

'The bed, my Lord,' replied Ludovico, 'they told me, was in a room that

opens beyond the saloon, and terminates the suite'

'O, here is the saloon,' said the Count, as they entered the spacious

apartment, in which Emily and Dorothee had rested He here stood for

a randeur, which it

exhibited--the su and low sophas of velvet,

with frailded--the floor inlaid with small

squares of fine marble, and covered in the centre with a piece of

very rich tapestry-work--the casee

Venetian mirrors, of a size and quality, such as at that period France

could not make, which reflected, on every side, the spacious apartay and brilliant scene, for this

had been the state-room of the chateau, and here the Marchioness had

held the assemblies, that made part of the festivities of her nuptials