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Elodie loathed domestic ideals. "Mon vieux," she would declare, "I had enough sewing in my young days. My idea of happiness would be a world without needles and thread." He noted in her, too, a curious want of house-pride. Dust gave her no great concern. She rather loved a litter of periodicals, chiffons, broken packets of cigarettes, tobacco and half-eaten fruit on the tables.
It was folly to expose such mats to the splashings of a washstand, but it was sublime folly. Sophia might remove them if she cared. Constance was house-proud; house-pride had slumbered within her; now it blazed forth.
The first fine rapture of house-pride having grown calm, the Bolderos settled down to the serene beatitude of the Higher Life tempered by the amenities of commonplace existence. When Adrian worked, Doria read Dante and attended performances of the Intellectual Drama; when Adrian relaxed, she cooked dainties in a chafing dish and accompanied him to Musical Comedy.
As for matches, frankly it would not have occurred to her to waste a match when fire was available. In the matter of her sharp insistence on drawn blinds at night, domestic privacy seemed to be one of the fundamental decencies of life simply that! And as for house-pride, she considered that she locked away her fervent feeling for her parlour in a manner marvellous and complete.
I think our villagers are, in the important points of cleanliness and solid comfort, and of course we are at the Vicarage as to that Keziah keeps us all like copper kettles; but don't you think we might have a little more house-pride about tasteful pretty refinements?
Maldon's modesty concerning the merits of her sitting-room Rachael soon fancied that she could detect traces of an ingenuous and possibly senile "house-pride," which did more than fret the lady companion; it faintly offended her.
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