Quote #3

It was a chamber of death into which he was ushered - dismissal, yet, of its sort, unique, marvellous. The room itself might have been the sleeping apartment of an empress - lofty, with white panelled walls adorned simply with gilded lines; with high windows, closely curtained now so that neither sound nor the light day might penetrate into the room. In the middle of the apartment, upon a canopy bedstead which has once adorned a king's palace, lay Madame de Maupassim.