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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Mansion by Henry van Dyke: At the proper time, pictures of the Barbizon masters, old English
plate and portraits, bronzes by Barye and marbles by Rodin,
Persian carpets
and Chinese porcelains, had been introduced to the mansion.
It contained a Louis Quinze reception-room, an Empire
drawing-room,
a Jacobean dining-room, and various apartments dimly reminiscent
of
the styles of furniture affected by deceased monarchs. That the
hallways
were too short for the historic perspective did not make much
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