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Inside, Greenway Court was not devoid of comfort, and even of luxury. The main hall was open to the roof, and, like all the rooms in the house, the rafters were left bare, and the walls rough cast in a sort of brown plaster not unpleasing to the eye. In every room there was a huge fireplace with great iron fire-dogs. In some of the guest-chambers were the vast curtained beds of the period, but in Lord Fairfax's own room was a small iron bedstead that he had used in his campaigns when a young man. His library communicated with his bedroom, and was by far the most luxurious room in the whole quaint building. It was lined with books from the door to the low ceiling -- George had never seen so many books in all his life before. There were also a few portraits and one or two busts. Over the mantel two swords were crossed -- one a cavalry sword, and the other a delicate rapier such as officers in the foot regiments used at that day. George's eyes fell upon them as soon as he and the earl entered the room.
"The sword was the one I had the honor to use in my campaigns under Marlborough, and the rapier" -- here Lord Fairfax smiled a little -- "I had concealed about me when I entered Bouchain in disguise."