My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. – Wilkie Collins
This is the story of what a Womans patience can endure, and what a Mans resolution can achieve. – Wilkie Collins

My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody. – Wilkie Collins
This is the story of what a Womans patience can endure, and what a Mans resolution can achieve. – Wilkie Collins
In the worship of Bacchus, we have sacrificed too freely…. Why not consecrate ourselves to the queen of the Camelias, and revel in the warm stream of sympathy that flows from her altar? In the liquid amber within the ivory-porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius… – Okakura KakuzÅ