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This principle may be applied to the battle pieces of Bourgognone, the French gallantries of Watteau, and even beyond the exhibition of animal life, to the landscapes of Claude Lorraine, and the sea-views of Vandervelde.
Now in truth she felt the coldness of her terror, and it seemed to her that suddenly she knew, as she knew it about Sir Claude, what she was afraid of. She was afraid of herself.
It was hard luck that I could only catch a word now and then, for some of the boys were calling out to each other; and that silly clown, Claude Hastings, had begun to sing one of his comic songs, while he capered around like a baboon. But I did hear Nick say the words: 'Get even, 'show him who's who in this burgh, and 'Belgian hares. Do they put you wise to anything, Hugh?"
Jane is under no control, Phyllis running wild, Ada worse managed than any child of my acquaintance 'And poor Lily wearing herself to a shadow, in vain attempts to mend matters, said Claude. 'If Lily was the eldest, things would be very different, said Mr. Mohun.
"I came down after Claude here, who'd fallen over, and was hanging to a bush that was giving way," explained Hugh. "And now it's up to you to get us both out of this scrape, Just." "Oh, if only I had a rope!" cried the other, apparently nonplussed. "Well, wishes won't make one," said the practical Hugh; "and so we'll have to do without.
* The allusion is to the French Art School at Rome, and the competitions into which students enter to obtain admission to it, or to secure the prizes offered for the best exhibits which, during their term of residence, they send to Paris. Claude was greeted with a growl like that of wild beasts disturbed in their lair.
"Let's make a circle round the fire and sing the old year out," suggested Rose gaily. "Myrna, get the banjo and the guitar. Shall I play on the piano, Papa Claude, or will you?" Mr.
Day followed day, and Claude kept his secret, the secret that he was doing, could do, nothing in the room arranged by Charmian, in the atmosphere created by Charmian. One thing specially troubled him. So long as he had lived alone he had never felt as if his art, or perhaps rather his method of giving himself to it, had any trait of effeminacy.
Ah! what changes have taken place I have that first picture I painted yet it is the same picture and still shows the hour and the season, but Mademoiselle Rose and I, where are we?" Turner and Corot trace back to the same artistic ancestor. It was Claude who first fired the heart of the barber's boy, and it was Claude who diluted the zeal of Camille Corot for ribbons and haberdashery.
The ménage was by no means magnificent, but was abundant in a patriarchal way; Madame de Warens had no idea of economy, and with her hospitalities and speculations was ever running more deeply into debt. The household, besides herself and me, consisted of housemaid, cook, and a footman named Claude Anet. From the first day, the sweetest familiarity reigned our intercourse.
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