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A murmur went through the wide court of the assizes, the galleries of which were crammed with spectators. If the accused did not spoil the effect of the brilliant speech by an imprudent word he was saved. The president's answer resounded unheard. And now the eye-glasses and opera-glasses began to click.
Two were necessary at last, the records reading: "We have ordered Thomas Osgood and John Bridges to have inspection over the boys in the galleries on the Sabbath, that they might be contained in order in the time of publick exercise." Later, even worse trouble arose.
This temple was constructed with a great many winding galleries appropriated to the reception of the women, and the strangers who, allured by debauchery, never failed to assemble there in great numbers, being allowed to choose any woman they thought proper from among those who came there in obedience to the law.
"For a house! a Twentieth Century house! That's the place for it!" One of his characteristic phrases was begotten in him. "Four-square to the winds of heaven, George!" he said. "Eh? Four-square to the winds of heaven!" "You'll get the winds up here," I said. "A mammoth house it ought to be, George to suit these hills." "Quite," I said. "Great galleries and things running out there and there See?
For the sake of such brotherhood as they can find, more than for any good that they get from galleries, they linger year after year in Italy, while their originality dies out of them, or is polished away as a barbarism. The company this evening included several men and women whom the world has heard of, and many others, beyond all question, whom it ought to know.
They reached the interior stairway which divides the galleries where the drawings and water-colors are hung, overlooking the immense garden inclosed in glass, where the works of sculpture are exhibited.
Many bibelots of silver and porcelain made a contrast to the other rooms, that were more like museum galleries; and everywhere here as in the country were flowers and the army of autographed photographs marching across tables and banked high against the walls. As soon as the family had entered, the tea-tray was brought in and placed near the fire.
W.T. Graham of the Burma Civil Service on the steamer from Port Saïd to Bombay, and I was indebted to them for two drives, one to their country home, which was an attractive two-storied bungalow with galleries and low windows above and below, quite unlike the thatched houses seen in Upper Burma.
Together he and his boy walked through the endless galleries filled with the wonders of the world, the pictures before which through centuries an unbroken procession of almost worshiping eyes had passed uplifted.
If sentiment working in sound can make music; if working in colors, etc., it can fill galleries with statues and pictures; if sentiment working in literature can produce poems, it should not seem strange that the heart, with its affections, furnishes the key of knowledge and wisdom.
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