It has been repaired in places, like a lot of period furniture, but it retains its original finish, […] along with splendid cabriole legs with claw-and-ball feet.

Probably for the same reason people stare at cats' assholes. oh i don't know. catbutts are kinda cute, don't you think?

Mrs. Arden desired him of all loves to come back again.

the intervolutions of a snake