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Then follows the tedious task of burnishing; setting the jewel in a strong bit of wax, you are told to rub it on a "smooth hard bone," until it is polished well and evenly. Benvenuto Cellini recommends a little paper sponge to be used in smoothing the face of enamels.
He seated himself again and began with a fierce, sustained delight to arrange and sort the bank-bills, laying the larger denominations by themselves, smoothing them down with a quick and tender touch, a kindling eye and a beating heart. In his whole life, past and future, there was not such another moment of enjoyment. Money is, of course, precious and acceptable to all men except idiots.
Almost savage hatchings with the point blend into finer touches from the toothed chisel; and here and there the surface has been treated with innumerable smoothing lines that round it into skin and muscle.
He was indefatigable in his labors, assisting the governor in organizing the regiments, smoothing the difficulties constantly arising from lack of familiarity with the details of the administrative service of the army, and giving wise advice to the volunteer officers who made his acquaintance.
He was up early in the morning to work, and he worked in the evening as long as daylight lasted, and once I found him in his shop in the evening, bending low over his bench with a kerosene lamp in front of him. He was humming his inevitable tune and smoothing off with a fine file the nice curves of a rifle trigger.
"Yes, dad," she said, smoothing his hands. "What damned liars they be Liddy! You're my gel, ain't ye?" "Yes, dad. I'll make some boneset liquor now." "Yes, yes," he said, with childish eagerness and a weak, wild smile. "That's it that's it." She was about to rise, but he caught her shoulder. "I bin a good dad to ye, hain't I, Liddy?" he whispered. "Always." "Never had no ma but Manette, did ye?"
'This head would become a coronet, my Lady would sometimes say, in her fond moments, smoothing down my hair; and, indeed, there is many a puny whipster in their Lordships' house who has neither my presence nor my courage, my pedigree, nor any of my merits. The striving after this peerage I considered to have been one of the most unlucky of all my unlucky dealings at this period.
This night and not for the first time either the little maiden of fifteen might have been seen, acting with the energy and self-possession of a woman soothing her mother's hysterical sufferings smoothing her pillow, and finally watching by her until she fell asleep. Then Olive crept downstairs, and knocked at her father's study-door. He said, "Come in," in a dull, subdued tone.
Renovales helped him to find his hat, coat and cane, which with his usual carelessness he had left in different corners of the studio. The master pushed him out of a door that led into the garden. Then, when he was alone, he ran to an old Venetian mirror, and looked at himself for a moment in its deep, bluish surface, smoothing his curly gray hair with his fingers.
Meantime Richard had signified to Edith his wish that she should bring another stool, and sit beside him just as Nina was doing. "I can then rest my hands upon the heads of you both," he said, smoothing the while Nina's golden curls, "Now tell us a story, please," said Nina; and when Richard asked what it should be, she replied,
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