"Why d'you have so much of everything?"
For the bedroom was as overfurnished as the parlour downstairs, and in as much the same helter-skelter fashion. The bed was hung luxuriously with violet velvet and the counterpane was yellow satin; several of the chairs were covered with violet velvet and another with crimson, fringed with gold tassels. There were at least two dozen portraits on the walls, a great many mirrors, three wardrobes, and two screens.
"Mother Red-Cap's a pawn-broker. The house is furnished with what she takes in - the portrait of grand-dad always seems to go first." He grinned and gave a lift of one eyebrow to indicate the numerous old gentlemen in stiff black doublets and white ruffs who looked down from the walls.
- Forever Amber
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