Question

The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments had from time to time been removed here, as fashions changed: and the imperfect light entering by their narrow casement showed bedsteads of a hundred years old; chests in oak or walnut, looking, with their strange carvings of palm branches and cherubs' heads, like types of the Hebrew ark; rows of venerable chairs, high-backed and narrow; stools still more antiquated, on whose cushioned tops were yet apparent traces of half-effaced embroideries, wrought by fingers that for two generations had been coffin-dust.

Accepted Answer

A la escasa luz que entraba por las ventanas angostas, distinguíanse camas inmensas, antiguos arcones de roble o nogal con cabezas de querubes y complicados dibujos en forma de palma sobre las tapas. Junto a aquellas verdaderas reproducciones del arca judaica se veían hileras de venerables sillas estrechas y de alto respaldo; escabeles más arcaicos aún, en cuyos respaldos tapizados quedaban vestigios de antiguos bordados hechos por dedos que hacía dos generaciones se pudrían en la sepultura.

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