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Never! least of all when he unbosoms himself in the liberty of his own house. 'Well, what I am going to tell you about the statue was witnessed night after night by all my household, from the eldest to the youngest, and any one of them could tell you the story as well as myself. 'What statue is this? 'Have you never noticed as you came in that beautiful one in the court, by Demetrius the portrait-sculptor? 'Is that the one with the quoit, leaning forward for the throw, with his face turned back towards the hand that holds the quoit, and one knee bent, ready to rise as he lets it go? 'Ah, that is a fine piece of work, too, a Myron; but I don't mean that, nor the beautiful Polyclitus next it, the Youth tying on the Fillet.
Soon after Pine left Mount Vernon, Houdon, the eminent French portrait-sculptor was there, at the request of the legislature of Virginia, who had ordered a statue of Washington to be executed for the statehouse at Richmond.
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