London at the End of the Century:A Book of Gossip
a Beckett, Arthur William
1900
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, the way to keep a wedding holiday happily is to avoid dangerous crushes, oil lamps, and boy assistants. If you want to be quite safe-if the illumination is general-you can stay at home. You may, under these circumstances, spend a cheerful evening in admiring your own device and sneering at the devices of your neighbours. But, above all, and before all-whatever your rank in life may be-if you go abroad amongst the admiring million, be sure On occasions, when London is out in its millions, there is emphatically (for infants) no place like home. | |
