William loved to talk--when he had a curio and a listener.
"I will.

Our great-grandmothers used them, you know, to support their mirrors, or to fasten back their curtains," he explained ardently.
"Now here's another Battersea enamel, but it isn't so good as my new ones--that face is almost a caricature." "But what a beautiful ship--on that round one!" exclaimed Marie.

"And what's this one ?--glass ?" "Yes; but that's not so rare as the others.

Still, it's pretty enough.
Did you notice this one, with the bright red and blue and green on the white background ?--regular Chinese mode of decoration, that is." "Er--any time, William," began Bertram, mischievously; but William did not seem to hear.
"Now in this corner," he went on, warming to his subject, "are the enamelled porcelains.

They were probably made at the Worcester works--England, you know; and I think many of them are quite as pretty as the Batterseas.