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"Lord, what rot they'd all be if I hadn't been I'm a successful charlatan," he went on "I've been able to pass off my system. But do you know what it is? It's cartonpierre." "Carton-pierre?" Paul was struck, and gaped. "Lincrusta-Walton!" "Ah don't say such things you make me bleed!" the younger man protested. "I see you in a beautiful fortunate home, living in comfort and honour."
There were, indeed, high-backed Dutch chairs of the seventeenth century; there was a sculptured carved buffet of the sixteenth; there was a sideboard robbed out of the carved work of a church in the Low Countries, and a large brass cathedral lamp over the round oak table; there were old family portraits from Wardour Street and tapestry from France, bits of armour, double-handed swords and battle-axes made of carton-pierre, looking-glasses, statuettes of saints, and Dresden china nothing, in a word, could be chaster.
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