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The inhabitants enjoyed perpetual health, and every breeze was laden with music and perfume. So lovely a place could not fail to yield pleasure to Saiáwush, who immediately set about building a palace there, and garden-temples, in which he had pictures painted of the most remarkable persons of his time, and also the portraits of ancient kings.
Few sculptors have displayed anything like his variety and range, which extends, for example, from the "Baptism of Christ" to a statue of "Louis XIII. enfant," and includes portraits, groups, compositions in relief, and heroic statues.
Closely arrayed, side by side, in the old frames which their broad shoulders filled, they startled one with the fixed gaze of their eyes, their fierce moustaches and the chests whose deep curves filled the enormous shells of their cuirasses. These were the ancestors. There were no portraits of their descendants and a wide breach existed in the series of the faces of this race.
The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of art, and art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth. CYRIL. But modern portraits by English painters, what of them? Surely they are like the people they pretend to represent? VIVIAN. Quite so. They are so like them that a hundred years from now no one will believe in them.
I've spent the greater part of my life here, so it's mostly the traditions I have they and the portraits." Thus it came about that owing to his desire to keep up the line of family portraits, Peter Craigmile engaged the artist to paint the picture of his gentle, sweet-faced wife.
Mr. P. It's too horrid of you to make fun of my poor little enthusiasms! But really, couldn't we get something and feed them? Do let's! Miss A. I daresay you could get ham-sandwiches in the Restaurant or chocolates. Mr. P. How unkind you are to me! But I don't care. Great big ones! Are you determined to take me into that big room with all the Portraits?
Lee raised his eyes as if in prayer and drew a deep breath. "There's but one thing for me to decide, Annie my duty." His sister clasped her hands nervously and glanced about the room. Her eyes rested on the portraits of Washington, and his wife and she turned quickly. "Your wife is the grand-daughter of Martha Washington.
Many of them are unquestionably fine specimens of art, but as they were principally portraits of men more distinguished by their position than by any genius, I was not interested in the collection. Very near the French gallery, there is an alcove in which Henry IV. used often to sleep, and where he at last died. His portrait is now exhibited in it.
There is a pleasure or two that I love the daylight for, and I think the night is not far off, at best. I believe I shall sleep now; you may leave me, and come, if you like, in the morning. Before I passed out, I took one more glance round the apartment. The beautiful face of the portrait looked at me, as portraits often do, with a frightful kind of intelligence in its eyes.
The two others jumped up under the spray of sparkling water, and ran after her, beating her with their fans and fly-flaps. Kondjé-Gul, the heedless beauty, who is rocking herself in her hammock beside me, scarcely raises her lazy head to follow them with a glance, at the sound of their cries and laughter. Since her name is at the end of my pen, I will begin my series of portraits with her.
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