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And this portrait is bound to be one or the other from the very nature of the thing." "I-is it?" Billy's voice was a little faint. "Yes. First, because of who the sitter is, and secondly because of what she is. She is, of course, the most famous subject I've had, and half the artistic world knows by this time that Marguerite Winthrop is being done by Henshaw. You can see what it'll be if I fail."
It means confusion! distraction! perdition! and a tearing off of our wigs! It means the game's up, the play's over, villainy is about to be hanged and virtue about to be married, and the curtain is going to drop and the principal performer that's I-is going to be called out amid the applause of the audience!"
You mean to commit assault and robbery in the first degree upon the body of the aforesaid Herman?" "I-is that it?" she faltered. "It is." She hesitated: "That is rather dreadful, isn't it?" "Somewhat. It involves almost anything short of life imprisonment. But I don't mind." "We couldn't get a search-warrant, could we?"
And the little rosy boys tried to let it, squeaking wrong notes with all their might and main, and fixing their eyes upon Lord Reggie and his carnation, rather than upon their sheets of music. "Thy lips are like a thread, like a thre-eda o-of scar-let, and thy speech, thy spee-eech i-is come-ly," they squealed at the top of their village voices, strong in the possession of complete unmusicalness.
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