What more easy, what more
delightful, than the description of upholstery? As thus:--
"'Lady Emily was reclining on one of Down and Eider's voluptuous
ottomans, the only couch on which Belgravian beauty now reposes, when
Lord Bathershins entered, stepping noiselessly over one of Tomkins's
elastic Axminster carpets. "Good heavens, my lord!" she said--and the
lovely creature fainted. The Earl rushed to the mantel-piece, where he
saw a flacon of Otto's eau-de-Cologne, and,' &c.
"Or say it's a cheap furniture-shop, and it may be brought in just as
easily, as thus:--
"'We are poor, Eliza,' said Harry Hardhand, looking affectionately at
his wife, 'but we have enough, love, have we not, for our humble wants?
The rich and luxurious may go to Dillow's or Gobiggin's, but we can get
our rooms comfortably furnished at Timmonson's for 20L.' And putting
on her bonnet, and hanging affectionately on her husband, the stoker's
pretty bride tripped gayly to the well-known mart, where Timmonson,
within his usual affability, was ready to receive them.
"Then you might have a touch at the wine-merchant and purveyor. 'Where
did you get this delicious claret, or pate de fois gras, or what you
please?' said Count Blagowski to the gay young Sir Horace Swellmore. The
voluptuous Bart answered, 'At So-and-So's, or So-and-So's.
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