—Or, I dare say, such charming, free and easy gayety.
—If this isn't gay, I should like to know what is.
—Oh, what's the use of talking? You can't convince people consumed by jealousy. They'll tell us we didn't sit on gilded chairs, absolutely not.
—They'll say that the chairs were of the commonest sort, bought at second hand.
—That the illumination was not by electricity, but just by tallow candles.
—Say candle stumps.
—Or dirty lamps.
—They'll have the impudence to maintain that the mouldings in Man's house are not gilded.
—And that the broad picture frames are not made of gold. It seems to me I can hear the very ring of it.
—You can see its glitter. That's quite sufficient, I should think.