The dining-room, when she went down to it, did not impress her any more favourably; for here, too, the furniture was new and shiny with a sticky kind of shininess, as if the treacly varnish had not yet dried; there was not a comfortable chair in the room; the pictures were the most gruesome ones of Doré's, and there was a text over the mantel-piece as aggressive and as hideous in colouring as those in her room.

MAN OF KENT," in The Scottish Treacly.

Ere the war-clouds gathered, I was prodigal in praise Of your charm and winning ways; You became a cult, a craze (Heavens, how I blathered!); With an ardour undismayed and treacly I proposed (without success)

Now the artist who could paint the silver wash of the mist, the wriggling treacly reflection of the boat, and the raw red wrists of the man would be something of a workman.