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ORG - - The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests.
At the top of the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age.
She receives the guests as they come up.
Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry - representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher- that is stretched on the staircase wall.
On the right is the entrance to the music-room.
The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard.
The entrance on the left leads to other reception-rooms.
MARCHMONT and LADY BASIL-DON, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa.
They are types of exquisite fragility.
Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm.
Watteau would have loved to paint them.
1st World Library An ideal husband, hardcover/oscar wilde
