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He also expresses the great pleasure he derived from Jacquemart's water-colors, their brilliancy and sureness of execution. The four following days having been very busy, received only this short note, "In Parigi con Seeley;" then the fifth has, "Seeley e partito sta mattina."
He is a mighty mass of pinguid bronze, with a fat lisp, and a broad, sunflower smile, and he lectures us with a vast and genial breadth of manner on the ruins, contradicting all our guesses at things with a sweet "Perdoni, signori! ma ." At the end, we find that he has some medallions of lava to sell: there is Victor Emanuel, or, if we are of the partito d'azione, there is Garibaldi; both warm yet from the crater of Vesuvius, and of the same material which destroyed Herculaneum.
How touching, on the other hand, is that simple entry in Francesco Francia's day-book, made when his chief journeyman, Timoteo Viti, leaves him: "1495 a di 4 aprile è partito il mio caro Timoteo; chi Dio li dia ogni bene et fortuna!" Gallery of the Capitol, Rome.
"We poked about in the rain in search of a San Giorgio on the wall of a house, who was described as 'vigorous in disciplined career of accustomed conquest. We found the right bridge, with an unpronounceable name, and we turned and looked back, just as we were bid, and never a San Giorgio did we find. Imagine our disappointment when a shop-keeper told us that San Giorgio was partito!"
"He was probably partito on his 'career of accustomed conquest," Pauline observed. "Is that what you two artists have been about?" "We have been making a couple of daubs and abusing each other," said Geof. "Yes," Kenwick declared; "Daymond spends his time washing in sails and clouds and watery wastes, and won't take the trouble to draw a figure."
Paul told us to be all things to all men he let in the thin end of the wedge, nor did he mark it to say how far it was to be driven. I have Italian friends whom I greatly value, and who tell me they think I flirt just a trifle too much with "il partito nero," when I am in Italy, for they know that in the main I think as they do.
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