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The newcomer must return this call; but, if she does not desire a further acquaintance, this can be the end of it. The time of calling must in every town be settled by the habits of the place; after two o'clock and before six is, however, generally safe. In England they have a pleasant fashion of calling to inquire for invalids or afflicted friends, and of pencilling the words "kind inquiries."
"There," she observed, after a half hour of active pencilling, "please lay your cigar aside and look pleasant. I want to catch the expression of your face." When the sketch was completed she asked if he had any suggestions to make. "Only one," he replied, "and that is, I would like you in the picture and sitting beside me."
Those fellows needed an artistic cussing-out and a thirty-day hang-up at the very lightest. You can't hold 'em down with Sunday-school talk." Lidgerwood was frowning at his blotting-pad and pencilling idle little squares on it a habit which was insensibly growing upon him. "Where would I get the two extra train-crews to fill in the thirty-day lay-off, Jack? Had you thought of that?"
Well, far better than my feeble pencilling can picture, will they fill up this slight sketch. That walk to Oxton, that visit to the village school, was full of generous affections unrepressed, the out-pourings of two deep-welled hearts, flowing forth in sympathetic ecstasy.
The Chevalier de Sainte-Foy brought her to visit my studio last autumn, and I am making a life-size portrait of her on her famous horse, Seaman, the winner of the great steeplechase at Liverpool, in 1882." "What were you pencilling on the back of your menu while you were talking?" asked the actress, curiously. "The profile of General de Prerolles," the painter replied.
The note was "Circus and Schnetterlings gone off in the night! Shop closed! Must performance be given up?" The town was all over red and blue posters! But Lance felt a wild hope for the future, and a not ill-founded one for the present. He rushed into his clothes, first pencilling a note "Never say die.
She asked if I'd go to the hall closet the one she reserved for her own things, you know and unlock it, and get out a box she told me about, and have the hall boy express it to her. And I did, and look!" Limping a little he followed her. She turned on the light that hung in the closet. Boxes pasteboard boxes each one bearing a cryptic pencilling on the end that stared out at you.
From Rembrandt he learned the true principles of coloring, to which he added a delicacy of pencilling, and a patience in working up his pictures to the highest degree of neatness and finish, superior to any other master.
When wearied with the romance of wild tropic scenes such as these, we have but to lift our eyes to the great mountain tops looming darkly and grandly on our right; to watch the light pencilling of the cirrus, brushing their summits, as it is drifted toward the north by the rising wind: to watch the changing forms which the clouds assume, from the fleecy horizontal bars of the cirrus, to the denser, gloomier cumulus, prognosticator of storm and rain, which soon settles into a portentous group Alps above Alps, one above another and we know the storm which was brewing is at hand, and that it is time to seek shelter.
Here is a little view of the outskirts of the same village, made a few days later, when I was told off with two others to go to the house on the right of the sketch to get water from the pump, exposed to the enemy's fire. While pencilling the sketch I saw the wide gap made in the tree's branches, as shown by a shell passing through it, which burst on the road some fifteen yards away from us.
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