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But she was afraid of vivacious beauty, of those soft, sparkling feminine charms which are spread out as lures for all the world, soft dimples, laughing eyes, luscious lips, conscious smiles, and easy whispers. What if her son should bring her home a rattling, rapid-spoken, painted piece of Eve's flesh such as this?
The document was the one furnished to me a year before when, at the invitation of the Russian Government, I had gone on a mission of inquiry into the state of the prisons in order to see, on behalf of the British public, whether things were as black as some writers had painted them.
As I have already said, we Minute Boys had but little opportunity to show our skill after the first hour, because the savages kept so close within their lodges; but now and then we had a crack at a painted figure, and seldom missed our aim.
And as it leaped in its fantastic dance, it saw through the painted windows to where the people prayed, and heard the organ roaring over the marshes.
She was elaborately dressed: a rich robe of very thick silk, a frisette with showy curls, a bonnet with many ornaments of ribbons and flowers, and a heavy Cashmere shawl such was her costume. Her eyes were undeniably fine, and a white veil covered her face, which to Edith looked as though it was painted or powdered. The gentleman at first sight seemed like a remarkably handsome man.
Now passing in my company in this vile neighbourhood, my lad remarked these houses with closed window-shutters, painted red, and his curiosity being aroused for these ten-year old little devils have eyes for everything he pulled me by the sleeve and kept on pulling until he had learnt from me what these houses were.
He had exerted himself to that extent out of friendship, pure friendship for Waddington, and he had chosen an early hour for his visit to mark it as a serious and extraordinary occasion. He sat now in the brown leather armchair which was twin to the one Mr. Waddington had sat in when he had his portrait painted. His jolly, rosy face was subdued to something serious and extraordinary.
It was in the expression given to the human figure in beauty of form and countenance, in which all the emotions of the soul, as well as the graces of the body were portrayed that the Greek artists sought to reach the ideal, and to gain immortality. And they painted for a people who had both a natural and a cultivated taste and sensibility.
I don't see I can't see the sense in spending that amount of money in plastering painted roses and undressed young ones all over the ceiling, Herbert." "No?" said Hawkins between his teeth. "Folly pure folly," grunted the old gentleman. "No reason for it no reason under the sun." Hawkins at least reserves family dissensions for family occasions. He held his peace and his tongue.
The outside of the lodge was often painted with mysterious figures which the lodge owner believed to have power to bring good luck to him and to his family. Sometimes these figures represented animals buffalo, deer, and elk or rocks, mountains, trees, or the puff-balls that grow on the prairie.
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