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Updated: May 25, 2025
I can look upon these defunct dragons with complacency. The pounce-boxes of our days have gone retrograde. The very clerks which I remember in the South-Sea House I speak of forty years back had an air very different from those in the public offices that I have had to do with since. They partook of the genius of the place! Old-fashioned, for a reason mentioned before.
Let the man who paints with pen and ink give the gas-light, and the flesh-pots, the passions and pains, the prurient prudence and the rouge-pots and pounce-boxes of the world as it is, and he will be told that no one can care a straw for his creations. With whom are we to sympathise? says the reader, who not unnaturally imagines that a hero should be heroic.
It was as if the contents of the shop of a jeweller who was at once a goldsmith and a silversmith had been emptied into this chest; you could scarce name an ornament that was not here watches, snuff-boxes, buckles, bracelets, pounce-boxes, vinaigrettes, earrings, crucifixes, stars for the hair, necklaces but the list grows tiresome; in silver and gold, but chiefly in gold; all shot together and lying scramble fashion, as if they had been potatoes.
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