[The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland]@TWC D-Link bookThe Secret of a Happy Home (1896) CHAPTER XXVII 2/10
Two of them may be built just alike, and one will look like a grocer's errand-cart, while the other is a regulation gentleman's turnout.
It is all the effect of polish and finish." Involuntarily my mind reverted to Mr.Turveydrop and his modest assurance that "we do our best to polish, polish, polish." The carriage builder struck the right chord when he affirmed that "finish made all the difference," and it applies as truly to flesh and blood as to insensate wood.
Only the wood has sometimes the advantage of taking more kindly to improvement than do human free agents. The rough places on which the effects of polish have not showed are too numerous for me to touch upon more than a few of them in this talk.
We will acknowledge that the paint and varnish are not all that is necessary.
The wood must be hard and prepared for the flowing process, if the wagon is to stand the scrutiny of critical eyes.
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