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Certain Personal Matters

Certain Personal Matters

Wells, H. G.

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Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1514282631
ISBN13: 9781514282632
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 8 2015
Pages: 86
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.18 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The world mends. In my younger days people believed in mahogany; some of my readers will remember it-a heavy, shining substance, having a singularly close resemblance to raw liver, exceedingly heavy to move, and esteemed on one or other count the noblest of all woods. Such of us as were very poor and had no mahogany pretended to have mahogany; and the proper hepatite tint was got by veneering. That makes one incline to think it was the colour that pleased people. In those days there was a word trashy, now almost lost to the world. My dear Aunt Charlotte used that epithet when, in her feminine way, she swore at people she did not like. Trashy and paltry and Brummagem was the very worst she could say of them. And she had, I remember, an intense aversion to plated goods and bronze halfpence.

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