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But the immediate outlook was pretty dark. He was beginning to be pestered with debts and duns the appointment on the morrow was with an old frame-maker who had lent him twenty pounds before Christmas, and was now begging piteously for his money.
It was a peculiar difficulty of his nature which led him to insist, on the occasions of the London and provincial exhibitions of his pictures, that the borrowers were to make all arrangements with his frame-maker, that he should not be called upon to act in any way, and that no personal reference should be introduced.
'You did, and without thinking I added, 'I hope you won't be sorry that you asked him to. It must have been an inspiration. Armour, those weeks before the exhibition, seemed invisible. Dora reported him torn with the incapacity of the bazaar frame-maker to follow a design, and otherwise excessively occupied, and there was no lack of demands upon my own time.
"Isn't he a little rogue!" she went on, and began to caress the waking baby. Meanwhile Sylvestre had been talking to Plumet at the other end of the room. "Out of the question," said the frame-maker; "we are up to our knees in arrears; twenty orders waiting." "I ask you to oblige me as a friend."
"The label, you observe, is the right way up as it hangs on the wall." "So it is," I rejoined hastily, a little annoyed that I had not been quicker to observe so obvious a fact. "I see your point. You mean that the frame-maker hung the thing upside down and Jeffrey never noticed the mistake?" "That is a perfectly sound explanation," said Thorndyke. "But I think there is something more.
What would have been the use? Not many days thereafter I got a request to ship my "Dead Hopes," at my price, to the address of a frame-maker in New York. Elaine's father said that he had a purchaser for it. I discovered later that he was a master of pleasant fiction.
A better way is to spread your picture over all earth; visiting them as Fate allows. Then none can steal or deface, nor any reverse of fortune force a sale; sunshine and tempest warm and ventilate the gallery for nothing, and in spite of all that has been said of her crudeness Nature is not altogether a bad frame-maker.
Priam knew that, being a Jew, the dealer could not be his frame-maker, who was a pure-bred Yorkshireman from Ravensthorpe. Mr. Oxford continued, "I sold that picture and guaranteed it to be a Priam Farll." "The devil you did!" "Yes. I had sufficient confidence in my judgment." "Who bought it?" "Whitney C. Witt, of New York. He's an old man now, of course. I expect you remember him, cher maître."
In his third year at college, the duns began to gather awfully round about him, and there was a levee at his oak which scandalised the tutors, and would have scared many a stouter heart. And it is reported of him that little Mary Frodsham, the daughter of a certain poor gilder and frame-maker, whom Mr.
It's an abominable conspiracy. Monsieur Plumet, I call upon you to give your wife the lie. She has written what is false; confess it! "The frame-maker hid his face in his hands and made no reply. "'What, Plumet, have you nothing to say for me? "Mademoiselle Charnot was leaving the room. "'Where are you going, Mademoiselle? Stay, you will soon see that they lie!
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