A sweep of light remained between frayed brocade curtains, without a gleam on the parquet floor.
He dared not venture beyond the dusty brocade curtains which separated the two rooms, but his fancy ventured fast enough.
There was a glowing log fire in the 50-foot-long dining room, and the big patterned brocade curtains were drawn.
It was a large, almost gracious, room with a high ceiling and long windows hung with faded blue brocade curtains.
Before he went to knock on the bedroom door, he drew back the heavy brocade curtain that was half-obscuring the window.
There were no stripes of shade down the folds of the yellow brocade curtains.
He threw aside the heavy brocade curtain and stepped out.
Curtains were half drawn across the arch, heavy pale green brocade curtains, far from new.
"When I'm thirty-five and come into my money, I sliall buy you a whole set of white brocade curtains."
The closed cream-colored brocade curtains of the huge bed invited her to rest inside them.