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Passing the card players the visitor notices an upright piano, and asks what that is for, and the attendant steer says they are all fond of music, and asks if he would not like to near some of the cattle play. He says he would, and the steer calls out a white cow who is sketching, and asks her to warble a few notes.
But the neighbouring peasantry were kind, and brought her so much food eventually, that she tells one of her friends that cases of tinned meats from Paris would be of no use to her. The worst of the encampment seems to have been that it interfered with her usual pastime of sketching, which could not be carried on in the evenings under a tarpaulin, by the light of a lantern.
Then Nanni, having returned to his post, was directed to row out a little from shore, and presently the two artists were at work, rapidly sketching in the bright figure with the slim black prow for a foil, and the silvery reaches of the lagoon beyond. Uncle Dan was sitting in the chair where he could watch the faces of the young men.
Sketching is always a peltable or mobable offence, as being contrary to the Koran, and sitting down tempts the pelter. Generally they pelt. The dogs of Albania are numerous, big, dirty, white dogs, large and hostile, and they attack with little hesitation. The women of Albania are secluded and remote, and indisposed to be of service to an alien sister.
I was sure of it. He came here on the very day you left the day which was to have been his wedding-day." "It was on that evening that I saw him; but he did not come to this house. I was sitting outside the churchyard sketching when I saw him." "He did not come to the house no; but he came to Arden on purpose to see you," Lady Laura answered eagerly. "I am sure of that."
So in sketching human character, feelings, prejudices, and motives of action, I have considered man at one time as a politician, a preacher, or a trader, and at another as a countryman or a citizen, as ignorant or wise, and so on. In this way I soon learned to take his gauge as you do a cask of spirits, and prove his strength or weakness by the bead I could raise on him.
His horns spread nigh six feet. If he stood straight and held them up he'd be fifteen feet or nothing! They spread more'n six feet, and I tell you, he's a beauty!" "Yes. He's all of that. But of what use is his beauty now?" "Humph! Didn't know you was a girl!" Adrian did not answer. He was rapidly and skilfully sketching the prostrate animal, and studying it minutely.
Was it possible, then, that she herself should bring the answer to this message that had been sent her stepping out of the dream-world in which she had disappeared with her lover? And how would she look as she came along this narrow passage? Like the arch coquette of this land of gaslight and glowing colors? or like the pale, serious, proud girl who was fond of sketching the elm at Prince's Gate?
They were occasionally varied by long walks into the country near London, for the purpose of refilling his sketch-book. It was on one of such occasions when he was sketching the details of some picturesque pollard old willows up the Thames, and standing all the time in wet ground that he caught a severe cold which confined him to the house. He rapidly became worse.
In sketching this outline of it let it not be objected that I suppose the reader as well acquainted with the respective names and boundaries of the country as long residence and unwearied journeying among them, have made the author. To have subjoined perpetual explanations would have been tedious and disgusting.
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