Various wood-cuts reproducing modern pictures of Munich alternated with these decorations.

Opposite the fireplace William II was displaying one of his innumerable uniforms, resplendent in gold and a gaudy frame.
The house appeared uninhabited.

Heavy soft curtains deadened every sound.

The corpulent go-between had disappeared with the lightness of an immaterial being, as though swallowed up by the wall.

While scowling at the portrait of the Kaiser, the sailor began to feel disquieted in this silence which appeared to him almost hostile....