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Updated: May 29, 2025
"No that is to say, I should like to have my chimney-ornaments, and I shall have them, though I do not know when; but I have it in my head to possess them, and I will, if I should have to sit up to work all night to do it." "And besides these ornaments " "I want for nothing; I cannot recollect a single thing more that I care about possessing now." "How now?"
Next day we received a handsome present of some chimney-ornaments, with 'Miss Jerningham's regards and best thanks; but we saw no more of the Mysterious Lady for some years. When we did meet again in a quiet country town, she had been to America, and we had experienced vicissitude and bereavement.
Durand departed to seek the quietude of Fouilly-les-Oies, never dreaming that on their return to Montfermeil, Palaiseau, or Sartrouville, they would find their salon converted into a pigstye, their furniture smashed, and their clocks and chimney-ornaments abstracted.
The curtains that overdraped the windows, the sofas and tables that stayed circulation, the chimney-ornaments that reached to the ceiling and the florid chandelier that almost dropped to the floor, were so many mementoes of earlier homes and so many links with their unhappy mother.
On a board, at the side of the door, are placed about twenty books—all odd volumes; and as many wine-glasses—all different patterns; several locks, an old earthenware pan, full of rusty keys; two or three gaudy chimney-ornaments—cracked, of course; the remains of a lustre, without any drops; a round frame like a capital O, which has once held a mirror; a flute, complete with the exception of the middle joint; a pair of curling-irons; and a tinder-box.
"Yes, neighbor, but as they are no longer in want, you surely will not refuse to allow them to repay you?" "True, I shall not refuse it; it will be something toward the purchase of chimney-ornaments my dream." "And then, again, you ought to think a little of the future." "The future?" "Should you fall ill, for instance."
"Then you have never thought of marrying?" "I marry! I could only expect to meet with a husband as poor as myself; and look at the unhappy Morels see where it ends! When you have but yourself to look to, you can always manage somehow." "Then you never build castles in the air never dream?" "Yes, I dream of my chimney-ornaments; besides them what can I desire?"
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