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I recollect now; this is paper, pens, and everything requisite for writing, besides children's books, copy-books, paint-boxes, and a great many other articles in the stationery line." "Well, sir, that is fortunate. Now we may set up our school, and as the whole population of the island will attend it, it will really be a National School." "Very true, Ready. Now for that cask."
July 22d. At two o'clock to-day I went to see Sylvestre, to tell him all the great events of yesterday. We sat down on the old covered sofa in the shadow of the movable curtain which divides the studio, as it were, into two rooms, among the lay figures, busts, varnish-bottles, and paint-boxes. Lampron likes this chiaroscuro. It rests his eyes. Some one knocked at the door.
Collar-buttons and children's paint-boxes those are the trolls that lie in wait! The gray clothes and the flannel trousers had been destined for the professional cleaner, and William, rousing himself from a brief stupor, made a piteous effort to substitute himself for that expert so far as the gray trousers were concerned.
They seem to be nibbling at the flowers, and then flying away something like bees gathering honey. Butterflies don't gather honey, cuckoo?" "No," said the cuckoo. "They are filling their paint-boxes." "What do you mean?" said Griselda. "Come and see," said the cuckoo. He flew quietly along in front of her, leading the way through the prettiest paths in all the pretty garden.
Morton and Elsie's young man were almost the last to arrive. Swinging their paint-boxes they came forward talking gaily. 'Yours is the best looking, said Elsie. 'Perhaps you'd like to get him from me. 'No, I never do that. 'What about Rose? Mildred bit her lips, and Elsie couldn't help thinking, 'How cruel she is, she likes to make that poor little thing miserable.
You carry your easel and stool and paint-boxes and umbrella up the steepest hill, and never mind if your back aches; I bend over Miss Denison's children with their drawing or building, and never think of my back-ache, do you see?"
Whereupon our friend had shrugged his shoulders, and after ironically thanking the official for his disinterested advice, he had given a farewell banquet of great splendour at the Grecco, packed up palettes and paint-boxes, and started for London, where his friends persuaded him that his talent would be recognised.
He continued to wait, he waited until the end of the evening until the sun was set and the mountains were enveloped in dark shadows. Then he shut up his paint-box and returned home. As I read these lines I find myself wondering how many paint-boxes have been shut up by the sight of the mountains.
They seem to be nibbling at the flowers, and then flying away something like bees gathering honey. Butterflies don't gather honey, cuckoo?" "No," said the cuckoo. "They are filling their paint-boxes." "What do you mean?" said Griselda. "Come and see," said the cuckoo. He flew quietly along in front of her, leading the way through the prettiest paths in all the pretty garden.
July 22d. At two o'clock to-day I went to see Sylvestre, to tell him all the great events of yesterday. We sat down on the old covered sofa in the shadow of the movable curtain which divides the studio, as it were, into two rooms, among the lay figures, busts, varnish-bottles, and paint-boxes. Lampron likes this chiaroscuro. It rests his eyes. Some one knocked at the door.
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