Standard Household-Effect Company, the (From Literature And Life)
Standard Household-Effect Company, the (From Literature And Life)
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
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Not one had been a pleasure to us; the sight of every onehad been a pang. All we wanted was never to set eyes on them again. " "I must say you have disposed of the tender and sacred associationspretty effectually, so far as they relate to things in storage. But thethings that we have in daily use?" "It is exactly the same with them. Why should they be more to us thanthe floors and walls of the houses we move in and move out of with noparticular pathos? And I think we ought not to care for them,... certainlynot to the point of letting them destroy our eternal-womanly with theanxiety she feels for them. She is really much more precious, if shecould but realize it, than anything she swathes in cheese-cloth or wrapsup with moth-balls. The proof of the fact that the whole thing is apiece of mere sentimentality is that we may live in a furnished house foryears, amid all the accidents of birth and death, joy and sorrow, and yetnot form the slightest attachment to the furniture. Why should we havetender and sacred associations with a thing we have bought, and not witha thing we have hired?" "I confess, I don't know.
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