Denham looked at her as she sat in her grandfather's arm-chair, drawing her great-uncle's malacca cane smoothly through her fingers, while her background was made up equally of lustrous blue-and-white paint, and crimson books with gilt lines on them.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
Denham merely smiled, and replacing the malacca cane on the rack, he drew a sword from its ornamental sheath.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
He turned over the pages with great decision, as if he were judging the book in its entirety, the printing and paper and binding, as well as the poetry, and then, having satisfied himself of its good or bad quality, he placed it on the writing-table, and examined the malacca cane with the gold knob which had belonged to the soldier.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf