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Everybody beamed upon me in the streets, and there arrived multitudinous little gifts at my house choice wines, tie-pins, game, cigars, ebony walking-sticks, confectionery, baskets of red mullets, old prints, Capodimonte ware, candied fruits, amber mouthpieces, maraschino all from donors who plainly desired to remain anonymous.
If the mind's shot through by such little arrows, and for human society compels it no sooner is one launched than another presses forward; if this engenders heat and in addition they've turned on the electric light; if saying one thing does, in so many cases, leave behind it a need to improve and revise, stirring besides regrets, pleasures, vanities, and desires if it's all the facts I mean, and the hats, the fur boas, the gentlemen's swallow-tail coats, and pearl tie-pins that come to the surface what chance is there?
Bags, purses, satchels, brushes, manicure-cases, blotters, boxes, cigarette-cases, photograph frames, fans, brooches, bracelets, buckles, studs, tie-pins, waistcoat buttons wherever the eye turned there seemed something fresh and beautiful to admire. After such an Aladdin's feast, would not her workman's bundle fall very flat?
But on the days when he had been motor-bicycling, Peter had to do a great deal of embroidery in the evenings, for the sake of the change. "I don't wonder you need it," a friend of the more æsthetically cultured type remarked one evening, finding him doing it. "You've been playing round with the Urquhart-Fitzmaurice lot to-day, haven't you? Nice man, Fitzmaurice, isn't he? I like his tie-pins.
Ordinary, everyday persons do not wear studs or tie-pins on chains made of platinum the most valuable of all the metals. How came a solitaire stud, made of a metal far more valuable than gold, and designed and ornamented in a peculiar fashion, to be lying on the hearthrug of old Daniel Multenius's room?
Very well dressed young men, with pale lavender ties and pearl tie-pins Lord Dunseverick had both are not often seen in Belfast quay-side offices. "If you want to see Mr. McMunn," said the clerk, " and I'm no saying you will, mind that you'd better take yon cigarette out of your mouth. There's no smoking allowed here."
You shun neither the over-bred nor the under-bred. Personally I affect neither, because they don't amuse me. You embrace both." "Yes," Peter mildly agreed. "But I don't embrace Streater, you know. I draw the line at Streater. Everyone draws the line at Streater; he's of the baser sort, like his tie-pins. Wouldn't it be vexing to have people always drawing lines at you.
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