Our Mutual Friend (thank you, Lor)
Mr and Mrs Veneering were bran-new people in a bran-new house in a bran-new quarter of London. Everything about the Veneerings was spick and span new.
All their furniture was new, all their friends were new, all their servants were new, their plate was new, their carriage was new, their harness was new, their horses were new, their pictures were new, they themselves were new, they were as newly married as was lawfully compatible with their having a bran-new baby, and if they had set up a great-grandfather, he would have come home in matting from the Pantechnicon [a London furniture warehouse], without a scratch upon him, French polished to the crown of his head.
For, in the Veneering establishment, from the hall-chairs with the new coat of arms, to the grand pianoforte with the new action, and upstairs again to the new fire-escape, all things were in a state of high varnish and polish. And what was observable in the furniture, was observable in the Veneerings—the surface smelt a little too much of the workshop and was a trifle sticky.
– From Our Mutual Friend, by Charles Dickens
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I was thinking Wodehouse.
Hello Daphne, at last you’re back.
The logo is new:
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/50-excellent-circular-logos/
It a cross between the OBAMA 08 campaign logo and PEPSI NEW.
It is rumoured that Anglu wanted this:
http://www.colblindor.com/wp-content/images/ishihara-elephant.jpg
But Joseph Muscat is colour blind and took it so badly that he got rid of Anglu.
The picture is perfect. Fit for the book cover.
Well at least she can make some bran muffins in that brand new oven.
Daphne , did you get this from David Copperfield by any chance?
[Daphne – It says right there that it’s taken from Our Mutual Friend.]
‘..without a scratch upon him, French polished to the crown of his head’.
The way he’s losing his hair, pretty soon he will be able to French-polish his crown.