It was a bare, resounding room smelling of stables, with cane forms along the walls, and the walls ornamented at regular intervals with painted lyres and little cut-glass branches for candles, which seemed to be shedding their old-fashioned drops as other branches might shed autumn leaves. 
It was a bare, resounding room with benches along the walls, which were ornamented with painted lyres and little cut-glass branches for candles. 