The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.
Si vedeva che lassù erano rilegati i mobili che man mano uscivano di moda, i cafoni di quercia e di noce, i bei letti antichi, le sedie dall'alta spalliera, coperte di ricami sbiaditi.