A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . will be a fine Flemish tapestry,a small room with pictures, fine mirrors, a quantity ofchina and beautiful knick-knacks from India ; the floorwill be covered with a fine Persian carpet, but you willnot find furniture upholstered in velvet, embroideredwith gold, chandeliers of rock-crystal, abundance ofpictures, of antique busts, of vases, of statues in marbleand bronze. Finally, I will tell you, to wind up thislong comparison, that if the Italian palaces were asclean as the Amsterdam houses they would be un
A vagabond courtier; from the memoirs and letters of Baron Charles Louis von Pöllnitz . will be a fine Flemish tapestry,a small room with pictures, fine mirrors, a quantity ofchina and beautiful knick-knacks from India ; the floorwill be covered with a fine Persian carpet, but you willnot find furniture upholstered in velvet, embroideredwith gold, chandeliers of rock-crystal, abundance ofpictures, of antique busts, of vases, of statues in marbleand bronze. Finally, I will tell you, to wind up thislong comparison, that if the Italian palaces were asclean as the Amsterdam houses they would be unsur-passed, and if the houses at Amsterdam were as neglectedas those in Italy no one would look at them. However small a house is here, there is always oneroom not lived in, and it is the best room in the is a Sanctuary of which the head maid-servant in thehouse is the High Priestess. She has such respect forthis reserved spot, that she never enters it without takingher shoes of! for fear of soiling the floor, for which theyhave such a veneration that they devote a sort of.
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