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The dining-room, simply furnished with reproductions of chaste Chippendale, and chilled to the uncomfortable low temperature that hardy Britons pretend to enjoy, formed part of an unassailably correct house of mid-Victorian style and antiquity; and the house formed part of an unassailably correct square just behind Hyde Park Gardens. Mr.
Vassie had achieved her end, the great end of mid-Victorian womanhood, and more vital to her even than most she was engaged to be married, and to a man whose social position seemed, as far as her judgment could be trusted, satisfactory. Mr.
The room I was ushered into was a back-room, a dining-room, looking on to a good garden. It was, in form and 'fixtures, an inalienably Mid-Victorian room, and held its stolid own in the riot of Rossettis. 'Nor me from mine, said the sturdy cruet-stand on the long expanse of table-cloth. The voice of Watts-Dunton ceased suddenly, and a few moments later its owner appeared.
It is perhaps in particular through the memory of our dismal approach to the theatre, the squalid slum of Wych Street, then incredibly brutal and barbarous as an avenue to joy, an avenue even sometimes for the muffled coach of Royalty, that the episode affects me as antedating some of the conditions of the mid-Victorian age; the general credit of which, I should add, was highly re-established for us by the consummately quiet and natural art, as we expertly pronounced it, of Alfred Wigan's John Mildmay and the breadth and sincerity of the representative of the rash mother-in-law whom he so imperturbably puts in her place.
There is little enough gay or debonair about him. Compared with Sheppard, Peace is as drab as the surroundings of mid-Victorian crime are drab compared with the picturesqueness of eighteenth century England. Crime in the nineteenth century becomes more scientific in its methods and in its detection also.
I remember accompanying one of our artists, Gaildrau, when a sketch was made of the scene of the crime, the Prince's drawing-room at Auteuil, a peculiar semi-circular, panelled and white-painted apartment furnished in what we should call in England a tawdry mid-Victorian style.
All these people you look down upon because our families were rich and important in the fifties are more up-to-date than you are, although I will admit that none of them has the woman-of-the-world air of the smartest New York women not that terribly respectable inner set in New York Aunt Mattie's and Aunt Charlotte's that just revels in looking mid-Victorian....The newer people I've met here their manners are just as good as ours, if not better, for, as you said just now, they don't put on airs.
"If the signorina is hoping for a miracle of plainness she will be unpleasantly surprised," said the old woman, and her shrivelled face was as mischievous as a monkey's as she drew the key of Olive's room from her pocket. "I am going to take her some soup now, and you shall come with me." It is quite impossible to be retiring, or even modest, in the mid-Victorian sense, in flats.
"No, indeed I don't," I answered. "Then there's a picture. You know that awful painting of a mid-Victorian ancestor of Vera's a horrible old man with bushy eyebrows and a high, rather dirty-looking stock?" "Yes, I know it," I said. "It's one of those pictures with eyes that follow you all round the room. At least it has now. I usen't to notice them.
Little Englandism, if that unfortunate term may be used to describe an essential and inevitable phase of imperial expansion, was the creed of all but one or two of the most capable and daring statesmen of the mid-Victorian age.
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