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The following text is from Anthony Trollope's 1855 novel The Warden. The narrator is describing a rectory, the residence of a clergyperson.
There was an air of heaviness about the rooms which might have been avoided without any sacrifice of propriety, colours might have been better chosen and lights more perfectly diffused; but perhaps in doing so the thorough clerical aspect of the whole might have been somewhat marred; at any rate, it was not without ample consideration that those thick, dark, costly carpets were put down: those embossed, but sombre [wallpapers] hung up: those heavy curtains draped so as to half exclude the light of the sun.
There was an air of heaviness about the rooms which might have been avoided without any sacrifice of propriety, colours might have been better chosen and lights more perfectly diffused; but perhaps in doing so the thorough clerical aspect of the whole might have been somewhat marred; at any rate, it was not without ample consideration that those thick, dark, costly carpets were put down: those embossed, but sombre [wallpapers] hung up: those heavy curtains draped so as to half exclude the light of the sun.