The rest of your pictures you can hang round the gallery upstairs, or in the other rooms." "In architecture," he went on--and though looking at Soames he did not seem to see him, which gave Soames an unpleasant feeling--"as in life, you'll get no self-respect without regularity.

Fellows tell you that's old fashioned.

It appears to be peculiar any way; it never occurs to us to embody the main principle of life in our buildings; we load our houses with decoration, gimcracks, corners, anything to distract the eye.

On the contrary the eye should rest; get your effects with a few strong lines.

The whole thing is regularity there's no self-respect without it." Soames, the unconscious ironist, fixed his gaze on Bosinney's tie, which was far from being in the perpendicular; he was unshaven too, and his dress not remarkable for order.