Ganz's Library
chandelier
bookshelves
up-to-date Empire furniture
busts
framed etchings
framed oils
crockery
Chinese-motif wallpaper
maroon drapes
Shalten's Flat
windows admitting air smelling slightly of smoke and richly of horse droppings (!)
hangings
pictures
busts
bric-a-brac
a leather and horsehair armchair
solidity accumulated since the Congress of Vienna
More later but Sheila and I are just setting off on a long walk.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
And it would take both a long peace and a dynamically expanding, basically free enterprise economy to enable people to attain this kind of solid prosperity.
Sean
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