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he believed to have emanated from Utrecht with a butter-
cup-colored satin ground, covered with velvet auricula
blossoms.—‘It was with that stuff,’ said he, ‘that the bed of
the Duchesse d’Anville at la Roche-Guyon was draped.’—
On the chimney-piece, he set a little figure in Saxe porcelain,
carrying a muff against her nude stomach.
M. Gillenormand’s library became the lawyer’s study,
which Marius needed; a study, it will be remembered, being
required by the council of the order.