Excerpt from The Human Interest: A Study in Incompatibilities Much too familiar! Thought Egidia, as she fol lowed the swing of the maid's cap streamers through portiered doorways and past Syrian shawl-draped cornices, and other pathetically futile attempts to conceal the impossible architecture of a commonplace house, built in a bad period, and decorated originally on the worst principles.

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