![]() A chair near it is Austrian bent wood, with cane seat. The washstand, against the wall on the left, consists of an enamelled iron basin with a pail beneath it in a painted metal frame, and a single towel on the rail at the side. On the left, further forward, is an ottoman. Above the head of the bed, which stands against a little wall cutting off the right hand corner of the room diagonally, is a painted wooden shrine, blue and gold, with an ivory image of Christ, and a light hanging before it in a pierced metal ball suspended by three chains. The counterpane and hangings of the bed, the window curtains, the little carpet, and all the ornamental textile fabrics in the room are oriental and gorgeous: the paper on the walls is occidental and paltry. It is half rich Bulgarian, half cheap Viennese. ![]() The interior of the room is not like anything to be seen in the east of Europe. It is late in November in the year 1885, and through an open window with a little balcony on the left can be seen a peak of the Balkans, wonderfully white and beautiful in the starlit snow. A lady's bedchamber in Bulgaria, in a small town near the Dragoman Pass. ![]()
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