You ought to
enjoy the owner's evident enjoyment (he was never bored and therefore
never boring), his charmingly ingenuous pride of possession, his shrewd,
humorous and excessively didactic utterances about painters, pictures,
architecture and female beauty, his zeal for water-colour sketching and
his apparently profound contempt of other exponents of the craft.
Nothing could be less like (I thank Heaven) the ordinary yachtsman's
recollections of his travels, and I get an impression that Mr. Bennett
was not ill-pleased to leave most of the work and the technical
knowledge to his skipper.
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"Crepe de Chine in oyster white will show the top of the dress
embroidered to the knees in some unconventional design of black
and a deeper shade of white."--_Daily Paper_.
"The bridesmaid's dress was of heavy white crepe-de-chine, of
pale apricot shade."--_Provincial Paper_.
Canning must have had a premonition of the modern fashions when
he wrote in _The New Morality_, "Black's not so black, nor white so
_very_ white.
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