"The glamour of inexperience is over your eyes," he answered; "and you see it through a charmed medium: you cannot discern that the gilding is slime and the silk draperies cobwebs; that the marble is sordid slate, and the polished woods mere refuse chips and scaly bark.
-Su inexperiencia la ciega -repuso- y todo lo ve usted a través de un falso aspecto encantador. No comprende usted que el oro es barro y las sedas telarañas; el mármol, grosera pizarra, y las maderas barnizadas, despreciable leña...