vian Inca or Thibetan Grand Llama or some other
style comes in.

And when our friends drop in for an evening we
talk decorations and furnishings--it is a subject
which never wears out. Mostly the women callers
favor discussions of tapestries and brocades with
intervals spent in fits of mutual wonder over the
terrible taste shown by some other woman--not
present--in buying the stuff for her house; and the
men are likely to be interested in carvings or paint-
ings; but my strong suit is wormholing in all its
branches--that and patina. I am very strong on
the latter subject, also. In fact among friends I
am now getting to be known as the Patina Kid.

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