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conversation room. The custom still continued of making seats with divisions, so that each person sat in a separate compartment. A triple
No. 240. A Domestic Scene.
feat of this kind is represented in our cut No. 241, taken from a manuscript of the French Boccaccio in the National Library at Paris.
No. 241. A Triple Seat.
The parlour seems to have been ornamented with more care, and to
have