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The autumn months were gone; December had come and "Christmas was coming." The negroes far and near had counted the days which must pass before their expected holidays. In Uncle Joshua’s kitchen there was much talking and laughing, fixing and fussing, and some crying.
Is George sick?" "No, George is not sick," said Fanny, "but—," and then as well as she could she told him all she knew. Uncle Joshua’s nervous system was unstrung, and his physical health impaired by long nights of watching with his wife, and now when this fresh shock came upon him, he fell back half-fainting upon his pillow. Then rousing himself, he said, "Alive and come back!
The practice of laying out the flat light and dark scheme of every picture which is to be finished in full relief is therefore most helpful, and directly in line with Sir Joshua’s habit with the old masters. It is not sufficient that pictures have lights and darks. The balance here is quite as important as line and measure.
Then the floodgates of Uncle Joshua’s heart seemed unlocked, and the long, fervent embrace which followed between the rough old man and his newly-found brother made more than one of the lookers on turn away his face lest his companion should detect the moisture in his eyes, which seriously threatened to assume the form of tears.
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