The Lady of Kingdoms Author:Inez Haynes Gillmore General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1917 Original Publisher: George H. Doran Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where... more » you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER H In the light that came from the windows, the outlines of the garret showed clear. It covered the entire square of the original house, the railed opening breaking through the floor at one end. At a height of a few feet, the walls merged with the roof, ran at a gentle angle up to the peak. The windows looking out under heavy eaves were broad and low; they came nearly to the floor. Southward dropped the suit-case. She moved over to the table, fumbled there an instant until she found a match. Shielding the flame with one hand and constantly renewing it, she lighted an astral lamp on the table, crystal lamps at opposite ends of the table, brass candles at intervals between. It was strange, coming from the stiffness and dinginess and mustiness of downstairs, that she did not gasp. For in the light of the first lamp, the room began to bloom with soft colour; at each extra illumination, it unfolded petals of a deeper tinting until, in the united blaze, it flared like a monstrous exotic flower. About her, in background and furnishings, lay a wild vivid melange of Orient and Occident, antiquity and modernity, subtle perturbing colour, classic, tran- quillising form. The walls and roof -- it gave a curious pavilion-like aspect to the place -- were draped in a thin, crepy, lustreless material. Shaded in tint, it must originally have run all the changes from a dim pink through luminous yellows and glowing oranges; now it was faded and blurred and sheened to a blend of all these hues. Superimposed on this background everywhere was more colour -- pure colour --...« less