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Updated: May 14, 2025
And, seating himself, he unloosed into the common room a beauty of sound more adorning than the rarest devices of the decorator's art a mesh of delicate harmonies that snared the imaginations of his three listeners and sent them winging to the very borders of their varying realms.
'Good! said Mr Boffin. 'Very good! Now let us hear what they're all about; will you be so good? John Rokesmith read his abstracts aloud. They were all about the new house. Decorator's estimate, so much. Furniture estimate, so much. Estimate for furniture of offices, so much. Coach-maker's estimate, so much. Horse-dealer's estimate, so much. Harness-maker's estimate, so much.
And so I ventured to say that I knew a very clever sculptor well, I do believe Caspar has talent latent talent, you know and at any rate a job of that sort would be a big lift for him. At least I thought he would regard it so; but you should have heard him when I showed him the decorator's sketch. He asked me what the Cupids were to be done in lard?
It was a brilliant gathering brilliant in every sense of the word. The hall was a great effort of the decorator's art; the people were faultlessly dressed; the faces were strong, handsome fair or dark complexioned as the case might be; those present represented the wealth and fashion of the Western Canadian ranching world.
The display of box work and crystal is sufficiently gorgeous to do honor to the famous old cathedral of France, the ceiling especially being a masterpiece of the builder's and decorator's arts; but the grandest portion, which a visitor recently returned from foreign travel called The Russian Castle, on account of the magnificence of the large box work and pearly crystal masses, should rather be known as the great cathedral's crowning glory, The Altar.
I may say, in passing, as our subject is really a matter of decoration, that our nineteenth century efforts in this direction are all of a somewhat gloomy tendency. We fill our rooms with imitations of somber Spanish leather, stain and paint our woodwork in leathery and muddy tones, to arrive at what is now a sort of decorator's god. Quaintness is the name of that god.
In a lesser degree, it is also necessary for me to ask your indulgence for the basement floor, on which we now stand. But the large drawing-room is still in the decorator's hands. Nothing will be spared that can improve, elevate, and adorn life at these happy little gatherings. Every evening, for example, there will be music for those who like it."
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