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Updated: June 2, 2025
They exerted themselves quite strenuously to instil into him the fundamental principles of life the correct method of tying a dress tie; the intricate ritual which governs such things as visiting-cards and asparagus; the exact limit of the domains of brown boots and dinner-jackets; the utter criminality of dickeys, turn-down collars, and side-whiskers; and the superiority of dialogue to monologue as a concomitant to afternoon tea.
"In vain, on your return from your morning stroll or afternoon canter, you look on the chimney-piece for a shower of visiting-cards and pink notes of invitation; in vain you ask your servant, Has any one called.
Black coats and hats ring at the bell, and pass in and out of the different apartments. The hall table is sprinkled with letters, visiting-cards, and programmes which seem to have had the alphabet shaken out upon them, for they bear the names of professors, doctors, reverends, and very reverends, and fairly bristle with A.M.'s, M.A.'s, A.B.'s, D.D.'s, and LL.D.'s.
I was so enraged that she was not there, I wished to cover my face with my handkerchief. By the third beach I was ready for the madhouse." "Is Oldport a pleasant place to live in?" asked Emilia, eagerly. "It is amusing in the summer," said Aunt Jane, "though the society is nothing but a pack of visiting-cards.
Behind a big earthwork of their own construction down on the river's edge of the old battle ground, close beyond the Callenders', they lay camped in pretty white tents that seemed to Anna, at her window, no bigger than visiting-cards.
It is some "Mayor Puff," of Boomtown, who can hardly be persuaded by the engraver from giving himself the satisfaction of incidentally announcing on his visiting-cards the result of the last borough election. A man's address may be engraved beneath his name at the lower right corner, the street and number only if in a city, or the name of a country-seat if out of town; as, "The Leasowes."
"These two names, for instance?" "Yes, there was certainly that." "By what name did he introduce himself to you?" "Jean Louis d'Imbleval." "But Jean Louis Vaurois?" "That's what my father calls him." "Why?" "Because that was how he was introduced to my father, at Nice, by a gentleman who knew him. Besides, he carries visiting-cards which describe him under either name."
His good fortune, too, had turned his head, and he scarcely paused to think of anything which had no direct interest for himself. He would come in full of fresh little anxieties, full of the cut of a morning-coat, of the shape of a felt hat, of the proper size for his visiting-cards.
Rudolph Musgrave sat all night beside the body. He had declined to speak with innumerable sympathetic cousins Vartreys and Fentons and Allardyces and Musgraves, to the fifth and sixth remove who had come from all quarters, with visiting-cards and low-voiced requests to be informed "if there is anything we can possibly do." Rudolph Musgrave sat all night beside the body.
Those were the only words he spoke that evening, and the servants understood well enough that something had happened between husband and wife, and that it was best to be silent and to obey. No one tried the door of the bedroom. If any one had turned the handle, it would have been found to be locked. The key lay on the table in the hall, amongst the visiting-cards.
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