Cry in the Night
“A cool and airy hall stretched ahead to a wide stone stairway. Opening off the hall to my left was a huge room with wicker furniture, a billiards table, and a square swimming pool whose underwater lights illuminated emerald green water.
Straight down the hall I looked up at the open second floor that seemed to float behind a balcony hung with exquisitely woven rugs, bright red patterned on white, vivid blue on gray.
To the right of the hall another great shadowy room opened. In its center was o...ne of the longest dining tables I had ever seen and, even from this distance, I could recognize the massive grace of a refectory table. Gilt-framed paintings hung on the walls.
The only sound was the whishing murmur of water slashing softly in the fountain near the base of stone steps that led up to the balcony. The fountain and the gleaming green swimming pool and the wide shadowy expanse of the huge rooms created a feeling of enchantment as if I were in the heart of a great forest amid trees so tall and so thickly leaved that all beneath was dim and quiet.MoreLess
Straight down the hall I looked up at the open second floor that seemed to float behind a balcony hung with exquisitely woven rugs, bright red patterned on white, vivid blue on gray.
To the right of the hall another great shadowy room opened. In its center was o...ne of the longest dining tables I had ever seen and, even from this distance, I could recognize the massive grace of a refectory table. Gilt-framed paintings hung on the walls.
The only sound was the whishing murmur of water slashing softly in the fountain near the base of stone steps that led up to the balcony. The fountain and the gleaming green swimming pool and the wide shadowy expanse of the huge rooms created a feeling of enchantment as if I were in the heart of a great forest amid trees so tall and so thickly leaved that all beneath was dim and quiet.MoreLess
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