Its oak paneling is rectory English; the marble in its bathrooms sometimes outdoes the tombstones of the Medici; and the salutes of the older bellhops seem imported from Windsor Castle.

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Bathrooms English Its Marble Medici Oak Outdoes Paneling Rectory Tombstones

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