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Updated: May 1, 2025
With his black-walnut furniture, his jig-saw and turning-lathe methods of decoration, his lincrusta-walton and pressed terracotta, his chromos, wax flowers, hoop skirts, chokers, side whiskers and pantalettes, went a horrific revival of mock modesty inspired by the dying efforts of the old formulated religious thought.
"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."
At beefy luncheon-tables, and in gorgeous, stuffy bars tapestried with Lincrusta-Walton, he had listened to the innumerable tales of the town, in which greed, crookedness, ambition, rectitude, hatred, and sexual love were extraordinarily mixed the last being by far the smallest ingredient. He liked the town; he revelled in it.
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