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She laid her small trap for her old friend and school-fellow with an admirable nonchalance and indifference of aspect, and looked at Rachel with an eye from which all appearance of speculation was carefully abstracted. "He gave up playing?" Rachel asked, with a tone of surprise. "Yes," said Mrs. Sennacherib, with a stolid-seeming nod. "He give it up clean.
Rubens and Rembrandt have been sometimes contrasted as the painters of light and of darkness; the contrast extended to their lives. It will read like a humorous anti-climax after so sad a history, when I add that no other painter painted his own likeness so often as Rembrandt painted his. In the engraving before me the face is heavy and stolid-seeming enough to be that of a typical Dutchman.
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