nor cold pretensions of any kind, but warmth,
brightness, animation. Bring in pleasing colors,
choice pictures,
bric-à-brac
, and what-not. But
let in, also, the sun; light the fires; and have
everything for daily use."—Oliver Bell Bunce,
Bachelor Bluff
(1882).
Bluff (Captain Noll), a swaggering bully and boaster. He says, "I think that fighting for fighting's sake is sufficient cause for fighting. Fighting, to me, is religion and the laws."