The Road Leads On
The Road Leads On
Translated from the Norwegian by Eugene Gay-Tifft, 1934
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rors which
reached from floor to ceiling, chairs and sofas designed with gilded
sphinxes and lion's paws, paintings and vases, tables and inlaid cabinets;
and many an odd piece did Gordon Tidemand pick up and send home in
enormous packing cases. It was indeed a spectacle to see how the interior
of the palace was beginning to blossom again in all its former splendour.
A hodge-podge of ornamental pieces, some imitation, some genuine, clocks
which naturally did not run, chandeliers with countless broken prisms,
bronzes smeared over with cheap patina, certain pieces of authentic
furniture in fine old woods, to say nothing of the many beds ornate with
angels and whatnot in the guest rooms. The grandeur of the new furnishings
went so far beyond all the old stuff young Willatz had carted away that
Theodore and his wife hardly knew what to do with it. No, they decided,
they would have to leave things standing where they were until their son
returned home.
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In London Gordo
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