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They talked of the successful launching, of the beauty of the ship, sitting as gracefully as a swan upon the water, of the almost perfect likeness of the figurehead to Berinthia. "Possibly it is so beautiful because the engraver's heart has gone into it," she said with a smile. Their eyes met. He thought hers very beautiful at the moment.
Nice place you've got here everything, I see press, plates, engraver's tools nothing missing but the rest of the gang! Perhaps, though, they can be found! Now then, that envelope quick!" Jimmie Dale's automatic swung forward significantly. "It's in the drawer of the table," snarled Curley. "Curse you, who " "Thank you!" Jimmie Dale's lips were a thin line.
Such an individual has, since Southey's day and Scott's, appeared in the person of Lady Charlotte Guest, an English lady united to a gentleman of property in Wales, who, having acquired the language of the principality, and become enthusiastically fond of its literary treasures, has given them to the English reader, in a dress which the printer's and the engraver's arts have done their best to adorn.
She repeated her arch query. She was sure he wanted to smoke. Indeed he did if she would permit? And forthwith Maitland's cigarette case was produced, with a flourish. "What a beautiful case!" In an instant it was in her hands. "Beautiful!" she iterated, inspecting the delicate tracery of the monogram engraver's art head bended forward, face shaded by the broad-brimmed hat. "You like it?
Knight as follows: MY DEAR MOTHER-IN-NEW-JERSEY-LAW, Inclosed find five handsome examples of the engraver's skill, same being the result of six industrious days. I know your passion for these objets d'art, I appreciate your eagerness to share my father's celebrated collection, and I join you in regrets at your failure to do so. But remember, "As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man."
A king, they say, hunted here in the old days of the cross-bow; but happily the place escaped notice in that artificial era when half the parks and woods were spoiled to make the engraver's ideal landscape of straight vistas, broad in the foreground and narrowing up to nothing.
I touched the arch with my palm, to ascertain the quality of its polish and workmanship. The Croat made a threatening gesture, which I took as a hint not to repeat the action. I walked under it, walked round it, viewed it on all sides; but why should I describe what the engraver's art has made so familiar all over Europe?
At last, one morning he saw an advertisement for a youth to learn the engraver's business one who had some knowledge of drawing preferred; to apply at Thomas Blatchford's, bank-note engraver. "Thomas Blatchford," repeated Mr. Walters, as Charlie read it over "why that is the Mr. Blatchford, the Abolitionist.
This was hardly what John wanted; but, not to be beaten, he facsimiled the master's freehand in a sort of engraver's stipple, which his habitual neatness helped him to do in perfection. Runciman soon put a stop to that, and took pains with a pupil who took such pains with himself taught him, at any rate, the principles of perspective, and remained his only drawing-master for several years.
The engraver's wife, a dumpy little woman with merry eyes, soon joined her husband, pushing before her two little girls; one, the smaller of the two, was two years younger than Amedee; the other was ten years old, and already had a wise little air. She was the pianist who practised one hour a day Marcailhou's Indiana Waltz.
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