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She watched him closely, wondering at his meaning why he had brought Haydon's name into the discussion. She was marveling at the subtle light in his eyes. "Your father liked Haydon he told me Haydon was the only square man in the country besides himself an' Sheriff Gage." "Father liked Haydon. I'm beginning to believe you really did have a talk with father before he died!" He smiled.
Between us there is a great gulf, not of inexplicable moral antipathies and distances, I hope, as there seemed to be between me and that gentleman concerned in the Stamp Office, that I so strangely recoiled from at Haydon's. I think I had an instinct that he was the head of an office. I hate all such people accountants' deputy-accountants.
We hear of Lord Palmerston's good-humoured elegance, Lord Lansdowne's amiability, Lord Jeffrey's brilliant conversation, and, most delightful of all, Lord Melbourne's frank, unaffected cordiality. Melbourne, it appears, enjoyed his sittings, for he asked many questions about Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Keats, and Shelley, and highly appreciated Haydon's anecdotes.
Lena did not really know what it was that had happened to her. Mrs. Haydon, and her daughters, and Lena traveled second class on the steamer. Mrs. Haydon's daughters hated that their mother should take Lena. They hated to have a cousin, who was to them, little better than a nigger, and then everybody on the steamer there would see her. Mrs.
Lord Mulgrave had suggested a heroic subject the Death of Dentatus which he would like to see painted, and he wished to know if this commended itself to Haydon's ideas. This first commission for a great historical picture for so he understood the suggestion was a triumph for the young artist, who felt himself gloriously rewarded for two years of labour and opposition.
Commenting on B.R. Haydon's autobiography, Whistler said: "Yes; Haydon, it seems, went into his studio, locked the door, and before beginning to work prayed God to enable him to paint for the glory of England. Then, seizing a large brush full of bitumen, he attacked his huge canvas, and, of course God fled."
A portrait of his wife stood on a smaller easel facing his large picture. The man reading, paused. 'He had suffered much more than I, he thought 'but his wife had helped him stood by him And he passed on to the next page to the clause in Haydon's will which runs 'My dearest wife, Mary Haydon, has been a good, dear, and affectionate wife to me a heroine in adversity and an angel in peace.
"I'll make some nice pound-cake to-morrow, and we'll ask her next day," said Maria cheerfully, as they turned into the lane. Maria Haydon's life had been spent in trying to make other people comfortable, and so she succeeded, oftener than she knew, in making them happy. Every day she seemed to forget herself, and to think of others more; and so, though old Mrs.
He saw Haydon's wrath flare up it was in the heightened color that spread upward above the collar of his shirt; he saw the man's terrific effort at self-control; and his look grew bitter with insolence. "What's botherin' you?" he said. "The cattle damn it!" shouted Haydon. "What in hell do you mean by sending them away without orders?" "I'm havin' my say, Haydon.
So does the heart of youth respond to the nearness of romance. They had been talking for half an hour when Barbara remembered that Haydon had not expressed a desire to meet Harlan. Haydon's face lost a little of its color as he replied to her suggestion that they find the man. But he laughed, rather mirthlessly, she thought. "I intend to see him, Barbara but alone.
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