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But the tedious process of copying was soon thrown aside for the new art which Colard Mansion had introduced into Bruges.
"Oh, I pray you," he broke in, "cease from ceremony and call me Marcus!" "Captain Marcus," she repeated, dwelling a little on the unfamiliar name, "I beg that you will forgive me for disturbing you at so unseasonable an hour." "Certainly I forgive you, Lady Miriam," he replied, also dwelling on her name and copying her accent in a fashion that made the grim-faced Nehushta smile.
His first endeavor was to find a law office where he could earn enough by copying and other work to pay his expenses while he continued his law studies. No such opening fell in his way and he had no letters of introduction here to smooth his path. He was now convinced that he must seek some small country town.
I believe that our copying of the European dress is a sign of our degradation, humiliation and our weakness, and that we are committing a national sin in discarding a dress which is best suited to the Indian climate and which, for its simplicity, art and cheapness, is not to be beaten on the face of the earth and which answers hygienic requirements.
Her voice fell into its lowest and tenderest key as she spoke these last words, and the tears stood in her eyes, as if the thought of Christ's life, so long familiar, had started into a new meaning for her. The opportunity for copying Him more literally than she had ever done before was granted to her, and her spirit sprang forward eagerly to seize it. Mr.
To-day's match is at Bagatelle." She laughed. "'Surely thou also art one of them; for thy speech betrayeth thee," she quoted. "I don't quite follow that, Miss Vernon." "No? Well, I'll explain another time. I must away to my copying." "Let me come and fix your easel. Really, I have nothing else to do." "Worse and worse! En route, alors! You can watch me at work.
For so irksome was my servitude, and the laying of colours on the ground of banners for my master to paint, and the copying of books of Hours and Missals, and the insolence of customers worse born than myself, that I could have drowned myself in the Vienne water but for the sight of Elliot. But the two gentlemen that had been her escort were staunch.
And it is no small thing if this is well done in a school. The qualities that give vitality and distinction to drawing must be appreciated by the student himself, and may often assert themselves in his drawing without his being aware that he is doing aught but honestly copying. And if he has trained himself thoroughly he will not find much difficulty when he is moved to vital expression.
The Chinese Ambassador gave it me. 'I know, he said. 'But why do you copy it? she asked, casual and sing-song. 'Why not do something original? 'I want to know it, he replied. 'One gets more of China, copying this picture, than reading all the books. 'And what do you get? She was at once roused, she laid as it were violent hands on him, to extract his secrets from him. She MUST know.
It is a love-story in which I was concerned." "Oh!" said Mrs. Crowder, looking up quickly, "a scholar?" "No," he answered; "not this time. Early in the fourteenth century I was living at Avignon, in the south of France. At that time I was making my living by copying law papers. You see, I was down in the world again." Mrs. Crowder sighed, but said nothing.
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