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He hurried to her, biding her good morning, for she had not appeared at breakfast. "And I wanted to see you before they all come. How is your mother?" "Just the same." She allowed him but the slightest touch of her small fingers before she turned abruptly to the row of water-colours. "Who painted those?" "Miss Penfold. Don't you know what a charming artist she is?"
The central table was crowned with a tall glass of exquisitely-arranged grasses and wild flowers, and the choice and graceful nicknacks round it were such as might be traced to a London life in the artist world, and among grateful patients. Brackets with vases and casts here and there projected from the walls, and some charming crayons and water-colours hung round them.
'Why won't she go on with her water-colours? She was beginning to do really good things then all at once gives it up. 'Oh, she must! I think those last sketches simply wonderful. Anyone would suppose she had worked at it all her life, instead of just a few months. How very clever she is! 'Alma can do anything, said Harvey, with genial conviction. 'Almost anything, I really think.
When he fell asleep, twenty years ago, I was down at Boscastle with a box of water-colours and a noble, old-fashioned ambition. I didn't expect that some day my pigments would glorify the whole blessed coast of England, from Land's End round again to the Lizard. Luck comes to a man very often when he's not looking." Warming seemed to doubt the quality of the luck.
"Etchings, and pictures, and fans," Kit contributed unsoothingly. "You're a dabbler and a failure. What pictures have you painted? Dinky water-colours and nightmare posters. You've never had one exhibited, even here in San Francisco-" "Ah, you forget. There is one in the jinks room of this very club." "A gross cartoon. Music? Your dear fool of a mother spent hundreds on lessons.
The middle girl, dear Grace she is thought very clever in water-colours, and I am quite sure, if it were necessary, she could pursue the arts in a professional spirit. Mr. Bevis entered the room, and Monica recognized the sprightly young man whom she had seen on the quay. The hostess presented him to her new friends, and he got into talk with Widdowson.
In his youth he drew as much as any painter who has ever exercised himself in drawing in order to become perfect; wherefore there may still be seen, throughout the world of art, a great number of his drawings, which have been dispersed by a son of his for ridiculous prices, partly drawn with the style, partly with the pen or in water-colours, but all on tinted paper, heightened with lead-white, and executed with marvellous boldness and mastery; and there are many of them in our book, drawn in a most beautiful manner.
Lady Montfort turned up the stair, and Lionel followed her into the apartment. A harp stood at one corner not far from it a piano and music-stand. On one of the tables there were the implements of drawing a sketch in water-colours half finished. "Our work-room," said Lady Montfort, with a warm cheerful smile, and yet Lionel could see that tears were in her eyes " mine and my dear pupil's.
On the walls were water-colours, scenery of Devon and Cornwall; a hanging book-case held about a score of volumes poets, essayists, novelists. Elsewhere, not too prominent, lay a Bible and a Prayer-book. He dressed, as never before, with leisurely enjoyment of the process.
There was a complete apparatus for instantaneously making tea, a luxurious little armchair specially made for its owner, a minute writing-case, and, for decorations, there were dainty and delicate water-colours. Half-a-dozen books lay about, a novel or two of the best kind, and two or three volumes of poems. "You wish to become a nurse?" said Miss Dashwood. "Yes."
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