This consoles you;
but it deceives no one; for the man who is moving is unmistakably stamped
with transition.
Yet the momentary eclipse of these things is not the worst. It _is_
momentary; for if you will but plant them in kindly corners and favorable
exposures of the new house, a mould of respectability will gradually
overspread them again, and they will once more account for their presence
by the air of having been a long time in the family; but there is danger
that in the first moments of mortification you will be tempted to replace
them with new and costly articles. Even the best of the old things are
nothing to boast of in the hard, unpitying light to which they are
exposed, and a difficult and indocile spirit of extravagance is evoked in
the least profuse. Because of this fact alone I should not commend the
diversion of moving save to people of very ample means as well as perfect
leisure; there are more reasons than the misery of flitting why the
dweller in the kilderkin should not covet the hogshead reeking of claret.
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