Everything about him made a strong appeal to good taste.

At the end of the room, opposite the fireplace, stood a vast sideboard, upon which china and glass, arranged in harmonious groups, shone and glittered.

The broad shelves or niches in the walls held much cut glass, which now and then threw back from many facets the ruddy light of the fire.

Before sitting down, they had dipped their hands in a basin of white china filled with water, and standing beside the door, and that too had pleased Robert's fastidious taste.
At their table each of the three found an immaculate white napkin, a large white china plate and goblet, knife, fork and spoon, all of silver, polished to the last degree.

Again Robert's nature responded and he looked at himself in his fine dress in the glittering silver of the goblet.