Many of them carried little red books full of long lists of things which they and their admirers and the offspring of mutual affection had eaten or would shortly eat.

In the High Street all was luxury: not a necessary in the street.

Even the bakers' shops were a mass of sultana and Berlin pancakes.

Illuminated calendars, gramophones, corsets, picture postcards, Manilla cigars, bridge-scorers, chocolate, exotic fruit, and commodious mansions--these seemed to be the principal objects offered for sale in High Street.

Priam bought a sixpenny edition of Herbert Spencer's _Essays_ for four-pence-halfpenny, and passed on to Putney Bridge, whose noble arches divided a first storey of vans and omnibuses from a ground-floor of barges and racing eights.