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Evidently that band of white paint had been exposed to sun and storm for many a long day. Then I had a look at her figure-head. It was a half-length model of a female figure, beautifully carved, less than life-size, with one arm drooping gracefully downwards, and the other the right outstretched, with a gilded lamp in the right hand.
"I should answer that I know." "Bravo! My gentleman knows more about it than the owner himself. M. de Gesvres has everything accounted for: M. Isidore Beautrelet has not. He misses a bookcase in three sections and a life-size statue which nobody ever noticed. And, if I asked you the name of the murderer?" "I should again answer that I know it." All present gave a start.
Even then it was so dark inside that they had to light a torch before they could see the walls, and the stench was horrible. A little chorus of murmurs escaped the lips of the Europeans as the interior became revealed to them. Opposite the door was a life-size and hideous effigy of a grinning god, made of wood and painted in many colours.
Just above the arch the more observant visitor will catch sight of a small medallion, modestly displaying, about half life-size, the face of an ordinary-looking man, who may have been a prosperous linendraper or a cheesefactor with whom the markets had gone well.
There was a movement of chairs, followed by an exchange of complimentary murmurs; and the picture was finally niched into a space which happened to fit it between two life-size portraits on the line in one of the smaller rooms. On the fashionable afternoon Lightmark's work was never without the little admiring crowd which denotes a picture of more than usual interest.
A silver image of the saint, half life-size, stands upon the rich marble altar.
In the first bloom of her womanhood she had left the world, resigning high rank, fair lands, and the wealth which makes for power. Her faith in human love having been rudely shattered, she had sought security in Divine compassion, and consolation in the daily contemplation of the Man of Sorrows. In her cell, on a rough wooden cross, hung a life-size figure of the dying Saviour.
Lie on mother's knee, my own, Dance your heels about me! Apples leave the tree, my own. Soon you'll live without me." <b>AMEN, MADAME J.</b> Honorable mention, Paris, 1901. <b>ANGUISCIOLA, LUCIA.</b> A pupil of her sister Sofonisba, painted a life-size portrait of Piermaria, a physician of Cremona. It is in the gallery of the Prado, Madrid, and is signed, "Lucia Angvisola Amilcares.
Of the four corners thus created, one is or was occupied by an estaminet: you can still see the sign, Estaminet au Commerce, over the door. Two others contain cottages, the remains of cottages. At the fourth, facing south and east, stands what is locally known as a "Calvaire," bank of stone, a lofty cross, and a life-size figure of Christ, facing east, towards the German lines.
The beginning of an excellent connection which I succeeded in establishing in and around that respectable watering-place, Tidbury-on-the-Marsh, was an order for a life-size oil portrait of a great local celebrity one Mr. Boxsious, a solicitor, who was understood to do the most thriving business of any lawyer in the town. Boxsious in promoting and securing the prosperity of the town."
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