Boomerang

This novel revolves around the narrator's two grandfathers. In this book, the narrator tries to give some kind of picture of them. This is because they frame between them a vision of a golden age, which could only have existed in brand-new countries, among brand-new circumstances and laws. It was not a golden age for everybody, wives or servants for instance, but for these two it was an age of standardization. These old crusted, crusty gentlemen, mellow even in their rages as the Madeira which they sent for a roll round the Horn before bottling, would have the deuce of a time.