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... New Living Translation, copyright 1996, 2004. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. Sc... ...m for my own life. Instead of fame, God has blessed me through my publishing houses and writers groups with some of the dearest friends I’ve ever know... ...t I’ll actually carry both checkbook and pen.), even from room to room in my house. I write in books I’m reading. Fiction books don’t stand a chance w... ...k for granted all that God blessed me with in regards to being a writer. I’m red-faced to admit I was a slow learner. I blamed my writing woes on ever... ...sake not the works of thine own hands.” God will help us become the writers, painters, the artists, He would have us be. In first grade, I fretted ove... ...ways to improve my book and proposal. At a conference a famous author took a red pen to my first chapter, showing me little things, nuances and pacing... ...perienced “waiter.” I’ve paid my dues: rejection slips, critique groups with red pens, and many, many rewrites. Trusting God’s timing for works in pro...

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... in the window of the living room on early into early morning chilling the house like an American winter, and he would snuggle deep under a saffron mo... ... Grandmother. And a rich grandmother at that, living in an air conditioned house instead of a broiling shack on stilts in the sylvan area of Ayutthaya... ...f himself like a member of the Burmese National League for Democracy under house arrest. Having exhausted the reserve that fueled what extroverted cha... ...an amateur painter's penchant for easily obtained nude models in Bangkok's red light district. Biadklang's talents at present are clearly dwarfed when... ...nd only at green pedestrian lights or when incoming traffic was stalled at red lights, and given him a sundry of unrecalled, commonplace items that fo... ...ion. He would never equal the great artists of the world and of prostitute painters he was one of myriad in contemporary Southeast Asian art alone. Th... ...tch pad, charcoal pencils, an easel, and other material items so vital for painters obsessed in depicting the inner world that was demotically and mis... ... you do the baby thing with her now?" "The baby thing?" he scoffed, turned red in embarassment, and became reticent with face looking downward as if t...

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...nd more precious than this when with a single soul man and woman run their household; the malicious are rendered furious but their friends rejoice ... ... in her deep grottoes wishing I would be her husband Circe kept me in her house the same way the seductive goddess wanting that I be her spouse ne... ...ing to settle for ephemeral beauty and a large number of poets, sculptors, painters and artists of all types attempted to create a type of beauty th... ...usband and her son? We must not forget that if the Suitors are in Ulysses’ house this is possible only because Penelope has allowed that they become... ... this process of transformation in four stages, often called black, white, red and green. Here it is important to read the Cosmo-Artistic interpret... ...full of gold and with Cassandra as his slave. When he got off the ship a red carpet was laid out for him to walk on, but when he entered the house... ...ant birth that has been celebrated for a long time by poets, sculptors and painters. But the birth of Ulysses before Nausicaa is a far more importa... ...armonious couple is more difficult than the miracle Moses performed at the Red Sea”. What this Rabbi says is truer today than ever, but Homer and Co...

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...sidering the costs of food and lodging, clothing, medical bills, a larger house, and the salary which the caretaking parent had to give up to stay h... ...ol graduates as nurses aids in the homes for the aged. There were jobs as housekeepers and gardeners. There were jobs making up the rooms in hotels a... ... materials and cheaper methods of construction. Consequently many of the painters and carpenters were no longer needed. The same thing happened in ... ...people on the planet hold. Every family owns an attractive high technology house. Parks and recreation facilities are found throughout the cities. Th... ...ral lessons. Look at your favorite fairy tales—the big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood; the wicked step mothers and step sisters, like in Cindere...

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...Chapters 1 34 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House, Volume One, Containing Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles ... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House, Volume One, Containing Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles ... ...Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. 3 Bleak House – Vol. One Bleak House by Charles Dickens PREFACE A Chancery judge on... ... might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar’s red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross bills, answers, rejoinders,... ...erwards “Yes!” And then, taking off his eye glasses and folding them in a red case, and leaning back in his arm chair, turning the case about in his ... ...nd the fields all smooth and white with last night’s snow, and the sun, so red but yielding so little heat, and the ice, dark like metal where the ska... ... portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contem plated by the painters. Athwart the picture of my Lady, over the great chimney piece, it ...

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...Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. 3 Bleak House – Dickens Bleak House by Charles Dickens PREFACE A Chancery judge onc... ... might look in vain for truth at the bottom of it) between the registrar’s red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross bills, answers, rejoinders,... ...erwards “Yes!” And then, taking off his eye glasses and folding them in a red case, and leaning back in his arm chair, turning the case about in his ... ...nd the fields all smooth and white with last night’s snow, and the sun, so red but yielding so little heat, and the ice, dark like metal where the ska... ... portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contem plated by the painters. Athwart the picture of my Lady, over the great chimney piece, it ...

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...Excerpt: Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hieroglyphics....

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...ner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The thr... ...ng each other like slates, in order, no doubt, not to overweight the frail house. One rainy morning in the month of March, a young man, carefully wrap... ...y wrapped in his cloak, stood under the awning of a shop opposite this old house, which he was studying with the enthusiasm of an antiquary. In point ... ...ed the young man to mirth. But it must be said that the wittiest of modern painters could not invent so comical a caricature. The animal held in one o... ...ave been pierced with a gimlet, flashed beneath arches faintly tinged with red in the place of eyebrows. Anxieties had wrinkled his forehead with as m... ...at half-past four in the after- noon, Augustine, pale, trembling, and with red eyes, was haled before her father and mother. The poor child artlessly ... ... morning Madame Guillaume, sur- prising her daughter, found her pale, with red eyes, her hair in disorder, holding a handkerchief soaked with tears, w...

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...Excerpt: Almae Sorori. In the year 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand deposited by the Seine above the Cite, behind the Church of Notre-Dame. The first man who was so bold as to build on this strand, then liable to frequent ...

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...ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring Almae Sorori IN THE YEAR 1308 few houses were yet standing on the Island formed by the alluvium and sand depo... ...ncies committed within the precincts of the Cite, had been able to build a house on the bank of the Seine just at the end of the Rue du Port- Saint-La... ...sland. The constable had taken advantage of this for the foundation of his house, so that there were several steps up to his door. Like all the houses... ...n a rage, mut- tered inarticulate words as he pulled off his doublet, half red and half blue, and slipped on a shabby camlet jerkin. After helping him... ...e Exiles by lightning, standing decrepit; one of those majestic trees that painters love; the trembling sapling takes shelter there from storms. One w... ... into which she had sunk, and looked at the constable, who was donning his red-and-blue jacket. “Whither are you off to?” she asked. “To tell the just...

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...the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy....

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...tion, in remote metropolitan distances “above the Forties,” of a new Opera House which should compete in costliness and splendour with those of the gr... ...orld of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cher- ished i... ...k-walnut bookcases and finial-topped chairs which was the only room in the house where Mrs. Ar- cher allowed smoking. But, in the first place, New Y o... ...box, turned his eyes from the stage and scanned the op- posite side of the house. Directly facing him was the box of old Mrs. Manson Mingott, whose mo... ...he base of shrubs shaped like orange-trees but studded with large pink and red roses. Gigantic pansies, considerably larger than the roses, and closel... ...verruled all scruples and hesi- tations, and sent him hurrying through the red corridors to the farther side of the house. As he entered the box his e... ...of his universe. He knew that there were societies 73 Edith Wharton where painters and poets and novelists and men of science, and even great actors,... ...ink of. Archer knew most of the “fellows who wrote,” the musicians and the painters: he met them at the Century, or at the little musical and theatric... ...gle artist since I’ve been here.” “What kind of artists? I know one or two painters, very good fellows, that I could bring to see you if you’d allow m...

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...APTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM MEMO...

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...CIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COM- MUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO “AN IN... ...h Bellefontaine, and with Sandusky. Chelsea, with its London associations of red brick, Sloane Square, and the King’s Road, is own suburb to stately a... ...nt, lay, watched by armed men, in the horror and isolation of a plague. Old, red Manhattan lies, like an Indian arrowhead under a steam factory, below... ...ell you her prospects, her hopes, the amount of her fortune, the cost of her housekeeping by the week, and a variety of particular matters that are no... ...e period of the fire; and now when I beheld street after street of ponderous houses and crowds of comfortable burghers, I thought it would be a gracef... ...to mend her pace, and the drunkard got his feet without a fall. He carried a red bundle, though not so red as his cheeks; and he shook this menacingly... ...wo in the afternoon of Friday that I found my- self in front of the Emigrant House, with more than a hun- dred others, to be sorted and boxed for the ... ...0.] 52 Across the Plains CHAPTER III FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNI- TIES OF PAINTERS I THE CHARM OF FONTAINEBLEAU is a thing apart. It is a place tha... ...is – comes the great fact that it is already colonised. The institution of a painters’ colony is a work of time and tact. The population must be conqu...

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...in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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... child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child’s bed.... ...ATER. Philip was sitting on the floor in the drawing-room at Miss Watkin’s house in Onslow gardens. He was an only child and used to amusing himself. ... ...o move, had made an elaborate cave in which he could hide himself from the Red Indians who were lurking behind the curtains. He put his ear to the flo... ...ersation, and Philip limped in. Henrietta Watkin was a stout woman, with a red face and dyed hair. In those days to dye the hair excited comment, and ... ...d a hansom, and she told the driver where to go. III WHEN THEY reached the house Mrs. Carey had died in—it was in a dreary , respectable street betwee... ...d mother. ” 9 W. Somerset Maugham The child’s mouth trembled a little, he red- dened, but did not answer. “ Y our dear mother left you in my charge.”... ... painting. He was steeped in Ruskin. He read many of Vasari’s lives of the painters. He liked that story of Correggio, and he fancied himself standing... ...hey did right in thwarting so strong an inclination. She had read of great painters whose parents had opposed their wish to study , the event had show... ...talking loudly and gesticulating; next to him were two men who looked like painters with women who Philip hoped were not their lawful wives; behind hi...

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...Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when he sat with Eve by the weir, and she gave him her hand and her heart....

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...is; and David Sechard, with the cour- age and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evan- gelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make... ...is intelligence torn to shreds, David Sechard, at the back of his printing-house, foresaw all the practical con- sequences of the increased activity o... ...the discovery, in fact, in order to apply the proceeds to the needs of the household and of the business. What words can describe the brain that can f... ...and prosaic apprenticeship to his laborious craft. So it came to pass that housekeeping, no less than working expenses, ate up the thousand francs, hi... ...terpress be- ing replaced by symbols, signs, and pictures in colored inks, red, black and blue. Old Sechard, who could neither read nor write himself,... ...d endowed Cerizet with an insignificant, rather pretty little countenance, red hair, and a pair of dull blue eyes; he had come to Angouleme and brough... ...n to that beautiful woman. The apothecary advanced the opinion that little red-haired women were preferable to tall, dark women, who, like fine horses...

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...................................................................... 73 THE HOUSE OF THE DEAD HAND ....................................................... ...evil like you. And it would be rather worth while to own the most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it’s going for a ... ...t struck me as a puerile and portentous thing to do, with that great blind house looking down at me, and all the empty avenues converging on me. It ma... ... there. I take my description from a rather rare thing: a faded drawing in red crayon, sober and truthful enough to be by a late pupil of the Clouets,... ... soon as she was gone I slipped out. I had got together a sort of disguise—red beard and queer-looking ulster. I shoved them into a bag, and went roun... ..., was often full of visitors: a cheerful crowd of journalists, scribblers, painters, experimenters in divers forms of expression. Coming and going amo... ...nd for a sleepless night or two the 68 Early Short Fiction thought flamed red on his darkness. But daylight dispelled it. The determining impulse was...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Boarding-House. Mrs. Tibbs was, beyond all dispute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area an...

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...onym of Charles Dickens Volume Two OUR PARISH TALES CHAPTER I—THE BOARDING-HOUSE. CHAPTER I. MRS. TIBBS WAS, BEYOND ALL DISPUTE, the most tidy, fidg- ... ...y, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. ... ... could do with a legacy of 700£., would be to take and furnish a tolerable house—some- where in that partially-explored tract of country which lies be... ...icks—Mrs. Maplesone and the Miss Maplesones,’ said Mrs. Tibbs, with a very red face, for she had been superintending the cooking operations below stai... ... of itself. The back of the epistle was pleasingly ornamented with a large red wafer, which, with the addition of divers ink-stains, bore a marvellous... ...d a green parasol, with a cobweb border. The visitor (who was very fat and red-faced) was shown into the drawing-room; Mrs. Tibbs presented herself, a... ...and shore, were all of that dull, heavy, uniform lead-colour, which house- painters daub in the first instance over a street-door which is gradually a...

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...e relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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...lliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house,... ...bserve, when any Yahoo comes from London out of curiosity to visit me at my house, we neither of us are able to deliver our con ceptions in a manner... ...me, and by him I was recommended to several patients. I took part of a small house in the Old Jewry; and being ad vised to alter my condition, I marr... ...ller pocket on the right side, were sev eral round flat pieces of white and red metal, of differ ent bulk; some of the white, which seemed to be sil... ...e table three fine silken threads of six inches long; one is blue, the other red, and the third green. These threads Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 28 ... ...ongest in leaping and creeping, is rewarded with the blue coloured silk; the red is given to the next, and the green to the third, which they all wear... ... appren tices in his own condition: their employment was to mix colours for painters, which their master taught them to distinguish by feeling and sm...

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... pages like a branch of sacred box, taken from an unknown tree, but sanctified by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless the house....

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...ied by religion, and kept ever fresh and green by pious hands to bless the house. De Balzac. EUGENIE GRANDET I THERE ARE HOUSES in certain provincial ... ...re clois- ters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of mo... ...Such elements of sadness formed the physiognomy, as it were, of a dwelling-house in Saumur which stands at the end of the steep street leading to the ... ...Enter. A neat girl, glowing with youth, wearing a white kerchief, her arms red and bare, drops her knitting and calls her father or her mother, one of... ... arranged in symmetrical patterns. A small square grating, with close bars red with rust, filled up the middle panel and made, as it were, a motive fo... ... in the guise of a shep- herdess. The windows were draped with curtains of red /gros de T ours/ held back by silken cords with ecclesiastical tassels.... ...dignity of the woman beloved, gave to her features an illumination such as painters render by a halo. Before the coming of her cousin, Eugenie might b...

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...ber, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins which was intended to unite the chateau of Catherine de Medici with the Louvre of the Valois....

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...r a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins w... ...s, I left home because I had business at Bastia. The Portas remained in my house, and set fire to my vine- yard at Longone. They killed my son Gregori... ... morning, escaped; the Virgin protected them. When I re- turned I found no house; my feet were in its ashes as I searched for it. Suddenly they struck... ...” he said, smiling, as if he meant to lodge there himself. “You are all in red, like a cardinal.” “Your success depends upon yourself; you can have a ... ...ant, half-ironical tone, and that free- dom of judgment which characterize painters. He had carried his scrupulous precaution into the arrange- ments ... ... contrasts produced by the whiteness of the linen and the bared arm to the red and blue uniform of the officer. At this moment a soft half-light perva...

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...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordinary track of tourists. Thither we must now accompany him, and endeavor to make our story fl...

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... sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) s... ...n, “the Counts of Monte Beni must have led a patriarchal life in this vast house. A great-grandsire and all his descendants might find ample verge her... ...ate brood of little ones to play within its own precincts. Is your present household a large one?” “Only myself,” answered Donatello, “and Tomaso, who... ...mong flowers, like a Cupid, and holding up a heart that resembled a bit of red sealing-wax. A small vase of precious marble was full of holy water. Be... ...pths of color with which poets seek in vain to dye their verses, and which painters never dare to copy. As beheld from the tower of Monte Beni, the sc... ...stood, merely, but stamped with all his might, and danced amain; while the red juice bathed his feet, and threw its foam midway up his brown and shagg... ...s. These men, and a few Flemings, whispers the wicked demon, were the only painters. The mighty Italian masters, as you deem them, were not human, nor... ...ore profoundly. She began to suspect that some, at least, of her venerated painters, had left an inevitable hollowness in their works, because, in the... ...ad on her bosom; not a diamond, but something that glimmered with a clear, red lustre, like the stars in a southern sky. Somehow or other, this colore...

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...n a cold morning in December, towards the close of the year 1612, a young man, whose clothing betrayed his poverty, was standing before the door of a house in the Rue des Grands-Augustine, in Paris. After walking to and fro for some time with the hesitation of a lover who fears to approach his mistress, however complying she may be, he ended by crossing the threshold and a...

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..., whose clothing betrayed his pov- erty, was standing before the door of a house in the Rue des Grands-Augustine, in Paris. After walking to and fro f... ...ackets. Innumerable sketches, studies in the three crayons, in ink, and in red chalk covered the walls from floor to ceiling; color- boxes, bottles of... ...ting! art! Because you make something which looks more like a woman than a house, you think you have touched the goal; proud of not being obliged to w... ...with his mountains of Flemish flesh daubed with vermilion, his cascades of red hair, and his hurly-burly of color. At any rate, you have got the eleme... ...gures, the saint and the boatman, have a subtile meaning which the Italian painters cannot give. I do not know one of them who could have invented tha... ... art and science.” “Let us see what you can do,” said Porbus, giving him a red crayon and a piece of paper. The unknown copied the saint with an easy ... ...t what he had done. “Now let us go and breakfast. Come, both of you, to my house. I have some smoked ham and good wine. Hey! hey! in spite of the dege... ... of my early daubs.” “Zounds!” cried Poussin naively; “are you the king of painters?” The old man smiled, as if long accustomed to such hom- age. “Mai... ...st strong shadows deepening almost to black- ness. The shadows of ordinary painters are not of the same texture as their tones of light. They are wood...

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...e are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. ?Yes, you too have been in Arcadia,? we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there. I don?t know who has it now, and don?t want to know; it?s enough to be so sure that if I should ring the bell there would be no such luck for me as that Brooksmith ...

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... have been in Arcadia,” we seem not too grumpily to allow. When I pass the house in Mansfield Street I remember that Arcadia was there. I don’t know w... ...nt of the place, down to the intensely Londonish look of the grey opposite houses, in the gap of the white curtains of the high windows, and the exact... ...nothing but his pension and the use for life of the somewhat superannuated house. When I’m reminded by some opposed discomfort of the present hour how... ...er rusty and very low on her lean shoulders—and with a Japanese fan in her red hands. I reminded her that in the scene I was doing she had to look ove... ...hen she stood erect she took naturally one of the attitudes in which court-painters represent queens and princesses; so that I found myself wondering ... ...e honour to think me most their form. They weren’t romantic enough for the painters, and in those days there were few serious workers in black- and-wh... ...ed him, Colonel Voyt got up. The veil of the storm had parted over a great red sunset. Mrs. Dyott also was on her feet, and they stood before his char... ...So this admirable old house, all time-softened white within and time-faded red without, so everything that surrounds you here and that has, by some ex...