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IŘÍ fixed up a room in the corner of the house for a study.

The heavy portières of the windows admitted but little light. There was an evident attempt at emulating the imposing duskiness of the studies of great men. The furniture,—it had been bought somewhere in Vienna,—heightened the sublime impression: it was of massive ebony, covered with shining plush of a moss color.

He hung excellent woodcuts of Havlíček and Sladkovský upon the large wall, by the side of Brožík’s Hus. The seven famous Young Čechs, who were the first to defend their holy rights at the Austrian Diet, he had hung above his table, in expensive gilt frames. Long bookshelves ran along the walls, and these were filled with fat, learned