Flowers and fruit he had sent from the very beginning in absurd profusion; a grape for Doria failed in adequacy unless it was the size of a pumpkin.

Now he brought the offerings personally in embarrassing bulk.

One offering was a gramophone which nearly drove her mad.

Even in its present stage of development it offends the sensitive ear; but in its early days it was an instrument of torturing cacophony.

And Jaffery, thinking the brazen strains music of the spheres, would turn on the hideous engine, when he came to see her, and would grin and roar and expect her to shew evidence of ravished senses.