Meantime the retainer goes round, like a gloomy Analytical Chemist: always seeming to say, after 'Chablis, sir ?'--'You wouldn't if you knew what it's made of.' The great looking-glass above the sideboard, reflects the table and the company.

Reflects the new Veneering crest, in gold and eke in silver, frosted and also thawed, a camel of all work.

The Heralds' College found out a Crusading ancestor for Veneering who bore a camel on his shield (or might have done it if he had thought of it), and a caravan of camels take charge of the fruits and flowers and candles, and kneel down be loaded with the salt.

Reflects Veneering; forty, wavy-haired, dark, tending to corpulence, sly, mysterious, filmy--a kind of sufficiently well-looking veiled-prophet, not prophesying.

Reflects Mrs Veneering; fair, aquiline-nosed and fingered, not so much light hair as she might have, gorgeous in raiment and jewels, enthusiastic, propitiatory, conscious that a corner of her husband's veil is over herself.