text: " The count now opened the door of an apartment which appeared to have been more lately tenanted than the rest yet which exhibited signs of the general desertion; a marble table covered with a decaying drapery a Carrara alabaster of Niobe and her children on the mantelpiece a huge mirror and a tapestry of one of the hunts of Henri Quatre showed that Time had been there and that the Prussians had not; but the indistinct light of the single chandelier left me but little opportunity of indulging my speculations on the furniture