Coleman, Oliver · New York, Fox Duffield & Company · leaf 40
g with the variouscombinations of reds and blues and yellows murmur in tints for fear asudden pause may find us shouting off the key and in another tune. Thisis, no doubt, why buff is almost always used for yellow, why green is sage,and crimson but a mawkish pink. In drawing rooms we meet this… … for these rooms, and, if the purse allow it, cannot be gainsaid—but theresthe trouble. Nothing in its way is finer than true old French, and nothingmore dreadful than most modern imitations; the one in cost is simply outof reason, while the other is dear at any price. Convention decrees that…
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