The scene was a dusky shabby little room in Ryder Street. To such caves many repair whose days are passed, and whose food is consumed, in the clubs of the adjacent thoroughfare of cooperative palaces, Pall Mall. The furniture was battered and dingy; the sofa on which Logan sprawled had a certain historic interest: it was covered with cloth of horsehair, now seldom found by the amateur. A bookcase with glass doors held a crowd of books to which the amateur would at once have flown. They were in 'boards' of faded blue, and the paper labels bore alluring names: they were all First Editions of the most desirable kind. The bottles in the liqueur case were antique; a coat of arms, not undistinguished, was in relief on the silver stoppers. But the liquors in the flasks were humble and conventional. Merton, the tenant of the rooms, was in a Zingari cricketing coat; he occupied the arm-chair, while Logan, in evening dress, maintained a difficult equilibrium on the slippery sofa. Both men were of an age between twenty-five and twenty-nine, both were pleasant to the eye. Merton was, if anything, under the middle height: fair, slim, and active. As a freshman he had coxed his College Eight, later he rowed Bow in that vessel.
Words: antique bottles, antique silver, bookcase furniture, chair antique, chair furniture, coat of arms, collections furniture, college furniture, furniture bookcase, furniture chair, furniture college, furniture glass, furniture repair, repair furniture, repair glass

Author: Lang, Andrew
Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: The Arabian Nights Entertainments
Pages: 00381 (Encrypted PDF)
On Sale: 2007-12-31
SKU-13/ISBN: 9781421896915
Category: Literary Collections : General