The Inheritors

The Inheritors is one of the two books that Joseph Conrad co-wrote with Ford Madox Ford.

Quote, "It was a palatial apartment furnished in white and gold -- Louis Quinze, or something of the sort -- with very new decorations after Watteau covering the walls. The process of disfiguration, however, had already begun. A roll desk of the least possible Louis Quinze order stood in one of the tall windows; the carpet was marked by muddy footprints"