The
apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time.
"Very well; but will monsieur keep all the
apartments?"
Take her to my
apartments," and he motioned to an officer at his side
But we have seen
apartments in the tenure of Americans of moderns [possibly "modest" or "moderate"] means, which, in negative merit at least, might vie with any of the or-molu'd cabinets of our friends across the water.
She was here shown successively into three large bed-chambers, with their dressing-rooms, most completely and handsomely fitted up; everything that money and taste could do, to give comfort and elegance to
apartments, had been bestowed on these; and, being furnished within the last five years, they were perfect in all that would be generally pleasing, and wanting in all that could give pleasure to Catherine.
It was noon, and Monte Cristo had set apart one hour to be passed in the
apartments of Haidee, as though his oppressed spirit could not all at once admit the feeling of pure and unmixed joy, but required a gradual succession of calm and gentle emotions to prepare his mind to receive full and perfect happiness, in the same manner as ordinary natures demand to be inured by degrees to the reception of strong or violent sensations.
The walls of the corridor consisted of a series of open archways through which, upon either side, other spacious
apartments were visible.
The paper curtains dropped behind our travellers in every window, shutting from the air even the firelight of the cheerful
apartments, and when the horses of her father turned with a rapid whirl into the open gate of the mansion-house, and nothing stood before her but the cold dreary stone walls of the building, as she approached them through an avenue of young and leafless poplars, Elizabeth felt as if all the loveliness of the mountain-view had vanished like the fancies of a dream.
Mr Richard Swiveller's
apartments were in the neighbourhood of Drury Lane, and in addition to this convenience of situation had the advantage of being over a tobacconist's shop, so that he was enabled to procure a refreshing sneeze at any time by merely stepping out upon the staircase, and was saved the trouble and expense of maintaining a snuff-box.
"Permit me, sir, to conduct you to your
apartments."
Adjoining my sleeping
apartment were baths, dressing rooms, and other sleeping and living
apartments, in all some ten rooms on this floor.
The passageway had risen rapidly since leaving the
apartment of the switch, and now ran level and well lighted straight into the distance as far as I could see.