Note this rare Florentine mosaic table with pedestal of ormolu; then we will pass on to the crystal room, an ante-room to the ball-room.

Parks opened the door, and, nodding to him, I led the way along the hall and into the ante-room.

"The cabinet is in the room across the hall," I said to M. Armand, and led the way through the ante-room into the room beyond.

The Captain and the lawyer came through the ante-room to the tapestry parlour, where now was nobody but young Harry Esmond, the page.

These consisted of an ante-room, a small drawing-room, and her private apartments beyond.

Unconsciously she had heard herself saying yonder, in the ante-room: "Blaise, where did I put my boa?"

They waited for him, and as the former again crossed the ante-room the better to judge of some new arrangements that had been made, he was surprised at being stopped by a lady who was sitting there patiently, and whom he had not previously noticed.

He spoke some soothing words, and retired, leaving instructions with the lady of the bed-chamber in the ante-room.

THE ANTE-ROOM The camp of Boulogne contained at that time one hundred and fifty thousand infantry, with fifty thousand cavalry, so that its population was second only to Paris among the cities of France.

Drummond, Greville, and Sir J. Shelley, whom I saw in the ante-room, congratulated me on being out, but condoled on Lord Durham's being removed out of my way.

Theophil sprang with others to her assistance, and Jenny, being carried into an ante-room for air and water, presently reviving, asked faintly for Mr. Moggridge to take her home, the thought of the big kind man coming into her mind with a sense of homely refuge.

I was rather late, and the ante-rooms were already filled with soldiers and diplomats in grand uniforms with glittering swords and decorations.

If he is a high official, a series of ante-rooms is interposed between his sacred person and an inquisitive world.

The interior is divided into a room some twenty feet by thirty-six, with two small ante-rooms.

No wonder that men in office must be guarded by the paraphernalia of ante-rooms and messengers, if a poor individual at this cold end of the world feels it an intrusion on his short winter days to have lounging visitors.

And order the witnesses to assemble in the ante-room.

The remainder of the buildings will be occupied by ante-rooms, and chambers for barristers.

[Goes toward the ante-room to the right and meets Nato with four sheets of music in her hand.

The ante-room door opened.

But when we left that broad, gay ante-room and came to the narrower passage where once his body had lain and where all his doom was portrayed, I could not follow him so well.

In drawing-rooms, boudoirs, ante-rooms, East and West India satin woods, rosewood, tulip wood, and the other varieties of woods brought from the East, may be used; with satin and light coloured woods the decorations may be of ebony or rosewood; with rosewood let the decorations be ormolu, and the inlay of brass.

He was never weary of showering rich gifts and favours on her; and, in return, she became the mother of his children and ministered to his every whim, little dreaming of the day when she in turn was to be dethroned by an insignificant widow whom she regarded as the creature of her bounty, and who so often awaited her pleasure in her ante-room.

His rooms were in the second story, reached by a broad stairway, at the top of which was a landing of liberal dimensions and an ante-room.

He consulted his notebook into which he had entered the address, and taking a street car, a few minutes later he climbed the stairway of a large railroad office building and quickly found himself in the ante-room of the railroad ruler's office.

IN THE ANTE-ROOM.