The People I've Smiled With: Recollections of a Merry Little Life
The book The People I've Smiled With: Recollections of a Merry Little Life was written by author Wilder, Marshall P. (Marshall Pinckney), 1798-1886 Here you can read free online of The People I've Smiled With: Recollections of a Merry Little Life book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The People I've Smiled With: Recollections of a Merry Little Life a good or bad book?
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They own them ; there are occa- sions when they wear them, but informal re- ceptions and entertainments are not among them. Baron Rothschild is the richest banker in England ; Mrs. Mackay is wife of a " Bo- nanza King," but, except on extraordinary occasions, there is less display of jewelry in the well-filled drawing-rooms of these promi- nent members of society than you may see at an ordinary reception in New York. English 54 Recollections of a Merry Little Life. SS people of the better class... own a great many jewels, and they know how to admire and dis- play them, but they have a very clear idea that " there is a time for everything," and the time to show off rare necklaces, bracelets, and other begemmed ornaments is not during an evening devoted to amusement. Even the diamond ring, without which no American lady's toilet is complete — nor any shop-girl's either — has to be looked for a long time in a parlor full of high-born English ladies,. As for a competitive show of diamond rings — " a full hand," — such as one frequently sees spoiling pretty fingers in America, you can't see it in any class of English society — not feven among the vulgar people made newly rich.
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