Note 29 — ENDS AND BEGINNINGS

A very intelligent man, Count Oscar Reichenbach, said to me once, speaking of the better-class houses in London: ‘Tell me the rent and the storey, and I will undertake to go on a dark night without a candle and fetch a clock, a vase, decanters ... whatever you like of the things that are invariably standing in every middle-class dwelling.’—(Author’s Note.)