What more easy, what more delightful, than the description of upholstery?
As thus:-- "'Lady Emily was reclining on one of Down and Eider's voluptuous ottomans, the only couch on which Belgravian beauty now reposes, when Lord Bathershins entered, stepping noiselessly over one of Tomkins's elastic Axminster carpets.

"Good heavens, my lord!" she said--and the lovely creature fainted.

The Earl rushed to the mantel-piece, where he saw a flacon of Otto's eau-de-Cologne, and,' &c.
"Or say it's a cheap furniture-shop, and it may be brought in just as easily, as thus:-- "'We are poor, Eliza,' said Harry Hardhand, looking affectionately at his wife, 'but we have enough, love, have we not, for our humble wants?
The rich and luxurious may go to Dillow's or Gobiggin's, but we can get our rooms comfortably furnished at Timmonson's for 20L.' And putting on her bonnet, and hanging affectionately on her husband, the stoker's pretty bride tripped gayly to the well-known mart, where Timmonson, within his usual affability, was ready to receive them.
"Then you might have a touch at the wine-merchant and purveyor.

'Where did you get this delicious claret, or pate de fois gras, or what you please ?' said Count Blagowski to the gay young Sir Horace Swellmore.

The voluptuous Bart answered, 'At So-and-So's, or So-and-So's.' The answer is obvious.