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"And so the paintings are still unsent, Though years ago their spirit went. "Two pictures hang in my treasured thought My dream of those the artist wrought. "They are sweet and fadeless, and soothe my sight, When weary and sad, with a strange delight. "But the light which shows their marvellous art Is the generous glow of the painter's heart.
Alexander, even as a Christian and as Agatha's husband, remained an artist. The fortune accumulated by Andreas the solidi with which he had formerly paid the scapegrace painter's debts included was applied to the erection of a new and beautiful house of God on the spot where Heron's house had stood.
"Should we have often to a put on special clothes?" Mrs. Monarch timidly demanded. "Dear yes that's half the business." "And should we be expected to supply our own costumes? "Oh no; I've got a lot of things. A painter's models put on or put off anything he likes." "And you mean a the same?" "The same?" Mrs. Monarch looked at her husband again.
This special interpretation is nevertheless precious and shows up the world in that light in which it interests naturalists or prophets to see it. Their figments make their chosen world, as the painter's apperceptions are the breath of his nostrils.
I shall not stay to unravel the mystery of this prosaic painter's malpractices; he falsified without fancy, and as he apparently transposed at will the objects he reproduced, one is never sure of the particular view that may have constituted his subject. It would look exactly like such and such a place if almost everything were not different.
Berenice fixed him with her cool, steady-gazing eyes, as frank and incisive as they were daring, and smiled him an equivocal welcome. She wore a blue denim painter's apron, and a palette of many colors glistened under her thumb.
Don't tell him the man was advancing rapidly in his profession. What was a painter's profession? or the son of a gallant Captain Winnington? If a gallant Captain Winnington could do nothing more than gallant, he did not deserve the name; it was a piece of fudge to cheat foolish women with.
From a painter's point of view, the scene of this great city, about which he has pictured so much, is somewhat disappointing. There is such an absence of anything suggestive of palaces and streets. Frankly, the ruins of the cement works at Frindsbury are, pictorially, far more suggestive.
But after a while the ranks began to be thinned and the ground to be broken; the little touches of beauty with which the sun had enlivened the woodland began to grow broader and cheerfuller; and then as the forest scattered away to the right and left, gay streams of light came through the glades and touched the surface of the rolling ground, where in the hollows, on the heights, on the sloping sides of the dingles, knots of trees of yet more luxuriant and picturesque growth, planted or left by the cultivator's hand long ago and trained by no hand but nature's, stood so as to distract a painter's eye; and just now, in the fresh gilding of the morning and with all the witchery of the long shadows upon the uneven ground certainly charmed Fleda's eye and mind both.
He was of a singularly agreeable presence, without being in the sense of the painter's model exactly "handsome"; and in particular he could boast a very pleasant and not in the least artificial smile.
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