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"Who knows what it may be?" said Claudia, as she loosened a twist in the cloths which enveloped the bust. There are often very remarkable things to be seen in such workshops. "Hey, what, it is only a woman's head! I can feel it," cried Balbilla. "But you can never tell," the older lady went on, untying a knot. "These artists are such unfettered, unaccountable beings."
But I'll tell it short, as you're in a hurry. Adrian dropped asleep on the sofa, and woke with a start, saying: 'What's become of Septimius Severus on the bookshelf? It was a bust, it seems. 'Re said: 'How did you know it had been moved? and he seemed quite puzzled and said: 'I can't tell. I forgot I was blind, and saw the whole room. Then 'Re said, he must have been dreaming.
"I've no doubt," says my lady. "Perhaps the lady of his choice is Miss Matilda Griffin!" and she flung out of the room, slamming the door, and leaving Miss Matilda to bust into tears, as was her reglar custom, and pour her loves and woas into the buzzom of Miss Kicksey.
It was true they had smashed a bust of Apollo and ploughed the wall into deep ruts; but, at least, they were no longer one of the public spectacles of London. 'Well, sir, said the vanman, 'I never see such a job. Gideon eloquently expressed his concurrence in this sentiment by pressing a couple of sovereigns in the man's hand.
Here, for example, is a passage from the poet Grey, still familiar to scholars: "Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? Can honour's voice invoke the silent dust Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?"
And then the deserters, and the people who keep out of the way as at the approach of a misfortune. Look at Felicia Ruys: just as she had finished my bust she pretends that some accident, I know not what, has happened to it, in order to avoid having to send it to the Salon. I said nothing, I affected to believe her. But I understood that there again was some new evil report.
Her bust is flat, and her back round, her hair quite white. Beneath her brows glitter two jet-black eyes the eyes of a tigress, that seem to breathe hatred and revenge." Gaudry was interrogated first. Asked by the President the motive of his crime, he answered, "I was mad for Madame Gras; I would have done anything she told me. I had known her as a child, I had been brought up with her.
Pliny informs us that the ancient world possessed no original bust of the former. That of the latter seems to have been chisseled to represent the celebrated athenian before he had obtained his philosophical triumph over those vices, which a distinguished physiognomist of his time once imputed to him from the character of his features. Bonaparte. Artillery. Mr. Pitt Newspapers.
"When a man has a big heart-breaking job to do and a lot of Philistines are knocking him, maybe it helps him to retain his faith in humankind to have some fellow grow sincerely sloppy and slip a telegraphic cheer in with the hoots. Besides, if I didn't let off steam today I'd swell up and bust myself all over the office " The door opened and Mr.
Watt is at this moment himself the best encyclopedia extant; I dare not attempt to tell you half he said: it would be a volume. Chantrey has made a beautiful, mean an admirable, bust of him. Chantrey and Canova are now making rival busts of Washington. I must hop, skip, and jump as I can from subject to subject. Mr. and Mrs.
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