a middle-aged female servant admitted him , looking surprised , and pottered off in search of the doctor , leaving grey in a small , neat parlor whose walls , shelves , and cases held the souvenirs of a man who had spent much of his life abroad : a set of german beer steins , a trio of french enameled snuffboxes , a series of case knives inlaid with elaborate marquetry , four grotesque masks , garishly decorated with paint and horsehair , whose origin he did not recognize ... . evidently , longstreet liked matched sets .