tion>H. G. Wells
Certain Personal Matters
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664642592
Table of Contents
THOUGHTS ON CHEAPNESS AND MY AUNT CHARLOTTE
ON SCHOOLING AND THE PHASES OF MR. SANDSOME
HOUSE-HUNTING AS AN OUTDOOR AMUSEMENT
INCIDENTAL THOUGHTS ON A BALD HEAD
ON THE ART OF STAYING AT THE SEASIDE
THOUGHTS ON CHEAPNESS AND MY AUNT CHARLOTTE
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. The halfpence of her youth had been vast and corpulent red-brown discs, which it was folly to speak of as small change. They were fine handsome coins, and almost as inconvenient as crown-pieces.
