But what particularly caught her attention was one of the two portraits that adorned the mantelpieces.
"Alice, or The Mysteries, Book II"
Edward Bulwer Lytton
For over an hour the four curiously assorted searchers examined the contents of the missing man's desk, of another desk in the study, of certain letter-racks which hung above the mantelpieces in both rooms, of drawers in these rooms, of drawers and small cabinets in his bedroom.
"The Chestermarke Instinct"
J. S. Fletcher
Everywhere the glitter of glass, mirrors over the mantelpieces, mirrors let into panels, glass chiffoniers, and pendent prisms of glass round the ornamental candlesticks.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies