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There were two especially distinguished guests: the leading man of the "Bird of Paradise" company, playing this week at the Dodsworth Theater, and the mayor of Zenith, the Hon. Lucas Prout.
They don't sit over their wine, and smoking is not allowed. Ruskin goes off to his study after dinner it is believed for a nap, for he was at work early and has been out all the afternoon. In the drawing-room you see pictures water-colours by Turner and Hunt, drawings by Prout and Ruskin, an early Burne-Jones, a sketch in oil by Gainsborough. The furniture is the old mahogany of Mr.
Spallanzani and Hunter had shown in the previous century that digestion is in some sort a solution of foods; but little advance was made upon their work until 1824, when Prout detected the presence of hydrochloric acid in the gastric juice.
"'Top a minnit, Mass' V'reker!" shouted Accra Prout, darting into the middle of the throng, clearing a pathway for himself with the capstan bar. "I'se here; I'se come help you soon!" "A thousand devils!" hissed a tall black near by a man with a large, crinkly, ink-black moustache, and certainly with the most satanic visage I had ever beheld before.
Two other English landscape painters, Callcott and the elder Crome, were also in their prime, and Wilkie executed several of his best known masterpieces at this time. David Cox and Prout did not earn celebrity till a little later. The Water-Colour Society was founded in 1804.
"Tar pees shust so much wisdom in vat you shays, mine friend Critchel. In dis world tar pees nothin' sartin. Dis Chapman, he puts his money in his pocket, and ven he gets his money in his pocket he gets rich and prout. Zen he goes to t' city so pig and prout as he can pe. Now he comes pack from t' city, mit his pig vrow, and tar pees nobody as makes one pow to his pig vrow.
Do you think do you know of any English or American family here that would take her to live with them till I return from this voyage? I'm willing to pay well for her keep." Prout shook his head. "I should advise you to take her back with you, Captain. How old is she?" The captain went to the companion-way and called out: "Marie." "Yes, father," answered a girl's soft voice. "Come below a minute."
"It may be well for thee, whose business is to get thy living from their sale, to talk thus," replied Master Prout; "but for all that, I relish not these foreign decoctions your Canaries, your Sherries, and your Portos. Their very names have a smack of popery in them. Down with the Pope, and all his inventions to tickle men's palates and damn their souls."
Of all things I detest, I admit that anything verging on disloyalty among ourselves is the first." The Common-room looked at one another out of the corners of their eyes, and Prout blushed. "I deny it absolutely," he said. "Er in fact, I own that I personally object to all three of them. It is not fair, therefore, to " "How long do you propose to allow it?" said King.
She studied harmony and composition with Stainer and Prout, and after this excellent training spent much time in creative work. For a long time she let her songs remain in manuscript, out of diffidence as to their value. Finally Mme. Helen Trust, the singer, came upon them, and obtained permission to bring out the "Message to Phyllis."
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