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Excerpt from The Unknown Quantity: A Play in Three Acts
On the black oak walls hang a sheaf of assegais, a bufialo's head, and many coloured sporting prints in ebony frames. The room is lighted by a standard oil lamp, which stands r.c. at back, and by sever'al groups of sconces containing wax candles, attached to the oak panels. There are three means of ingress. The Right Upper Entrance communicates with a small outer hall and cloak room, and the main entrance: The Door C. At back gives on to a passage which runs to right and left, and gives access to the rest of the'dwelling. French windows draped. With curtains open into a pretty old woe garden. The right wall curves outwards and is pierced by three mullioned windows with leaded panes. A-handsome fireplace with oaken mantelshelf is L., and in front of it a high leather-topped fender. On the mantel are a chiming clock and several brass ornaments. A'n oval table is C., a chair on either side of it. A sofa with cushions is B; Below the entrance R. Is a Small oak table, on which are usually placed the after-dinner refreshments. A book case containing sets of the best authorsin uniform bindings stands in a recess r.c.' at back.' A large writing table is placed in an angle of the wall down L., next footlights. Above it is a library chair, dnd'by the side of it a waste-paper basket; An armchair is above fireplace L., - a cabinet l.o. At back. A small table, or work-basket on legs, stands below French window. L. Usn.
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