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Lady Barfleur had been a very fine woman in her day, and though her beauty was now somewhat passed, she was still a stately dame, and accorded extremely well with the old mansion of which she was mistress.
The drawing-room, to which she conducted her visitors, was a very splendid apartment, and merits a brief description.