[House of Mirth by Edith Wharton]@TWC D-Link bookHouse of Mirth CHAPTER 14 24/42
Especially if he marries my clever cousin----" Selden dashed in with the query: "And the Wellington Brys'? Rather clever of its kind, don't you think ?" They were just beneath the wide white facade, with its rich restraint of line, which suggested the clever corseting of a redundant figure. "That's the next stage: the desire to imply that one has been to Europe, and has a standard.
I'm sure Mrs.Bry thinks her house a copy of the TRIANON; in America every marble house with gilt furniture is thought to be a copy of the TRIANON.
What a clever chap that architect is, though--how he takes his client's measure! He has put the whole of Mrs. Bry in his use of the composite order.
Now for the Trenors, you remember, he chose the Corinthian: exuberant, but based on the best precedent.
The Trenor house is one of his best things--doesn't look like a banqueting-hall turned inside out.
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