Its advertisements depict either gross masses of food
such as cave-dwellers naturally relish, or else quiet country
scenes--green lanes, and sunsets, and peaceful dwellings in the country.
Home, sweet home! The cottage! That means open windows or suffocation.
. . . I think I see the person who spoke to you on the steamer," he
added to Mr. Heard. "I don't like his looks. He is coming our way."
"That must be Mr. Muhlen," exclaimed the Duchess. "They say he played
beautifully at the hotel last night. I wonder whether I could induce
him to try my Longwood? It's rather an old model, I fear, and out of
tune."
The gentleman appeared, ostentatiously dressed and escorted by Mr.
Richards, the Vice-President of the Alpha and Omega Club, who seemed to
be fairly steady on his legs and was presently absorbed in an artistic
examination of a number of silver ornaments, crucifixes, relics and
suchlike objects of virtu, which the Duchess had gathered together. He
handled them like a connoisseur. Others of that institution had
promised to attend the party but, on being overhauled by the
conscientious Vice-President, were found to be unpresentable at the
last moment.
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