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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1960, 16 April 1875, Page 4

Dovetail has a magnificent mansion, which it is his delight to e-nbellish with all that is raresi; and most costly in art. The place is a perfect museum of painting, sculpture, and articles of vertue. Ihe other day Dovetail had a" viilger parvenu down on a visit, an odious snob, .with the purse of a Croesus, and he took him over his choice collection of pictures, pointing. out the special beauties, and dwelling with gusto on the number of guineas they had cost him, and the parvenu nodded and grinned, and said "Ah" and "Yes" bow and then, as if he- understood it all. But he was fortunately not obliged to commit ; himself to any definite opinion which Should display his ignorance. At last they came t© the sculpture gallery. Stopping opposite a fine copy of the " Greek Slave," Dovetail said, " There—that's an old friend, of course you know tbatP" The snob put up his eye-glass, and l6oked puzzled for a moment or two, as he gazed with the critical eye of a connoiseur at the un> draped figure; then a flood of light suddenly burst upon him, and'with a curious smile he turned to Dovetail and said, " Oh, ah, yes, of course, Mrs Dovetail!" Poor Dovetail's feeling* may be imagined, but cannot be described. . Voltaire said of Mdlle. deLivry. " She was so beautiful that I raised my long, thin body, and stood before her like a point of admiration."