The Red Room

The red room was a square chamber very seldom slept in, i might say. Yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion. A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask. The two large windows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery. Housemaid alone came here on saturdays to wipe from mirrors and furniture a week's quiet dust. And missus reed herself, at far intervals, visited it to review the contents of a certain secret drawer in the wardrobe,. where were stored divers parchments, her jewel casket and a miniature

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