Above the chimneypiece hung an enlarged photograph of her husband, taken a couple of days after his wedding.

He stood before the chimneypiece watching his mother, but not offering to help her; rather as though undecided as to what his next words ought to be.

He hurries the lingering guests through the little parlour, the chimneypiece of which was copied from the tomb of Ruthall, Bishop of Durham, in Westminster Abbey.

We have Francis I.not himself, but his armour: the chimneypiece, too, is a copy from the tomb-works of John, Earl of Cornwall, in Westminster Abbey; the stonework from that of Thomas, Duke of Clarence, at Canterbury.

And there on the chimneypiece he saw an old photograph of himself at the age of thirteen, holding a puppy in his arms.

A large oil painting of his Majesty the Czar of Russia hangs over the marble chimneypiece.

Then she rose slowly, turned, and stood before the low, long chimneypiece.

" Then, all at once she straightened herself and left the chimneypiece.

I leave him my best tool box, and father's red silk pocket-handkerchief which I keep in the old tobacco pot on my chimneypiece.

It was not until the last gleam of sunset had for some time faded, and the twilight had so deepened that she could no longer discern the colours on the china figures on the chimneypiece or in the cabinets, that the child returned to the housekeeper's room to find her mother.

It tells you that by its goodly old-time ampleness, its high panelled walls with their dimming portraits, its great chimneypiece flanked by tall cupboards, and its massive overshadowing stairway.

Historians loudly condemn the royal and noble thieves who plundered the Coliseum and the Pantheon to build palaces, yet there are men in our times, who would, if they could, take Dr. Johnson's hint to pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and with it macadamize their roads; or fetch it away by piecemeal to build bridges with its stones, and saw up its marble monuments into chimneypieces.

His eyes travelled to a sketch in pencil of a man's head which hung in the shadow of the chimneypiece, a sketch whose uncanny suggestion might have come from the quality of the sitter or merely from a smudging of the medium.

[Illustration: Three Chimneypieces. Designed by James Gibes, Architect, in 1739.] Nearly all writers on the subject of furniture and woodwork are agreed in considering that the earlier part of the period discussed in this chapter, that is, the seventeenth century, is the best in the traditions of English work.

[Illustration: Chimneypiece and Overmantel. Designed by W. Thomas, Architect.

[Illustration: Chimneypiece and Mirror.

[Illustration: Chimneypiece and Bookcase.