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It was not his taste; but in its own substantial, lincrusta way it was the acme of comfort and security. And the night was so dark and windy; the grave so cold and lonely! He paused outside the door. No sound came from within. He turned the handle softly and was in the room before he was perceived. The light was shaded.
It was not his taste; but in its own substantial, lincrusta way it was the acme of comfort and security. And the night was so dark and windy; the grave so cold and lonely! He paused outside the door. No sound came from within. He turned the handle softly and was in the room before he was perceived. The light was shaded.
During the last few months they had transferred themselves to the "Malibran," a tall narrow structure resembling a grain-elevator divided into cells, where linoleum and lincrusta simulated the stucco and marble of the Stentorian, and fagged business men and their families consumed the watery stews dispensed by "coloured help" in the grey twilight of a basement dining-room. Mrs.
Morris could see; they wore perfectly correct clothing, neither smart nor hygienic nor faddy in any way, but just sensible; and they lived in a nice sensible house in the later Victorian sham Queen Anne style of architecture, with sham half-timbering of chocolate-painted plaster in the gables, Lincrusta Walton sham carved oak panels, a terrace of terra cotta to imitate stone, and cathedral glass in the front door.
I believe that he is as extinct as the dado, of which now only fossil remains are found, chiefly in the vicinity of Brompton, where they are sometimes discovered by workmen excavating. They are usually embedded in the old Lincrusta Walton strata, and are rare consequently. I visited M. le Cure to-day. He has a charming house and a jardin potager. He showed me over the church.
"Seven-thirty, then!" said he. "And you will be ready?" "I shall be very exact. Thou wilt tell me all that concerns thy committee. That interests me. The English are extraordinary." Within the hotel the glowing Gold Hall, whose Lincrusta Walton panels dated it, was nearly empty.
Through the gaping windows, against the wall of the next building, I saw in mid-air the greenish Lincrusta Walton of what I guessed to have been the billiard-room the billiard-room that had boasted two full-sized tables. Above it ran a frieze of white and gold. It was interspersed with flat Corinthian columns.
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