"You see I have a few recent pictures of merit upon the walls.

Here is a Corot, two Meissoniers, a Bouguereau, a Millais, an Orchardson, and two Alma-Tademas.

It seems to me to be a pity to hang pictures over these walls of carved oak.

Look at those birds hopping and singing in the branches.

They really seem to move and twitter, don't they ?" "They are perfect.