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Updated: May 25, 2025
Beyond the south gate, amid groves of lofty pine trees, are the temple and grounds, the pond and senior wrangler bridge, of the Confucian Temple the most beautifully-finished temple I have seen in China. Money has been lavished on this building.
In an open space beside a mosque lay neglected a beautifully-finished marble bath, once intended, perhaps, for a Roman villa; and in the wall of the mosque, and of the cemetery beside it, were numerous friezes and cornices, whose elaborately-finished sculptures of the Ionic and Corinthian orders proved that they were never designed for any building on the spot, but were in all probability worked near the quarries for the purpose of easier transportation, as is done in the quarries of Carrara at the present day.
"Then Gustave made these eh?" "Yes. And see, he gave me this!" and she drew from her breast a small shining cylinder of brass, a beautifully-finished little object about four inches long. "He gave this to me to use if necessary!" the girl added, a meaning flash in her dark eyes. For a moment I was silent. "Then you would have used it upon that Cossack?" I said slowly. "That was my intention."
Standing in one of the many studii of Carrara, that afternoon for it is a great workshop, full of beautifully-finished copies in marble, of almost every figure, group, and bust, we know it seemed, at first, so strange to me that those exquisite shapes, replete with grace, and thought, and delicate repose, should grow out of all this toil, and sweat, and torture!
There were few ornaments to be seen; no landscapes or hunting-scenes no pictures of pretty women no fancy pieces for the mantel no wine either, nor cigars, for Bressant neither smoked nor drank. A beautifully-finished and colored drawing of a patent derrick, in plan and side elevation, was pinned to the wall opposite the window.
The panels round the saloons contain beautifully-finished emblems of each of the states in the Union, and a few other devices that savor very strongly of republicanism. For example, a young and beautiful figure, all radiant with health and energy, wearing a cap of liberty, and waving a drawn sword, is represented trampling on a feudal prince, from whose head a crown has rolled in the dust.
At about a third of the way down from the terrace door a great screen, covered with American cloth, cut the room almost in two. Against this screen stood two suits of beautifully-finished fifteenth-century Italian armour. Between them and the further end of the room ran a long deal table, with a green baize cover.
"We shall leave every thing just as we find it," said Frank, who was a good deal surprised at the conduct of the girl. "All we want is the fire-arms, if you have any in the house." "Yes, we have got some here," said Ellen, "and I will get them for you;" and she drew out from the bed-clothes two beautifully-finished rifles, a quantity of ammunition, a cavalry sword, and a double-barreled shot-gun.
"I'll bet you haven't got any thing in the village that can come up to this," continued Charles; and as he spoke he raised a light, beautifully-finished rifle from the bottom of the boat, and held it up to the admiring gaze of the boys. "That is a beauty," said Harry, who wished to continue the conversation as long as possible, in order to hear some more of Charles's "large stories."
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