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Follow the wand closely, and observe, bursting, as it were, through his sleeves, the characteristic vigor of Columbus's Biceps Flexor Cubiti " "Mercy on us! what's that?" cried Lady Brambledown. "Anything improper?"
Blyth, walking all along the semicircle of chairs, and politely offering his manuscript to anybody who would take it. Not a hand was held out. Bashfulness is frequently infectious; and it proved to be so on this particular occasion. "Nonsense, Blyth!" exclaimed Lady Brambledown. "Read it yourself. Egotistical? Stuff! Everybody's egotistical. I hate modest men; they're all rascals.
Thus nature is exalted; and thus Art Pastoral no! thus Art Pastoral exalts no! I beg your pardon thus Art Pastoral and Nature exalt each other, and I beg your pardon again! in short, exalt each other " Here Valentine broke down at the end of a paragraph; and the gardener made an abortive effort to get back to the doorway. "Capital, Blyth!" cried Lady Brambledown.
"Ten thousand thanks," said Mr. Blyth, hooking the key to his watch-guard again, as he returned to Lady Brambledown with his friend. "Ten thousand thanks; but the worst of it is, I don't know where to find the pasteboard." If, instead of turning to the right hand to speak to Mr.
Meanwhile, through all the bustle of departing and arriving friends, and through all the fast-strengthening hum of general talk, the voice of the unyielding doctor still murmured solemnly of "capsular ligaments," "adjacent tendons," and "corracoid processes" to Lady Brambledown, who listened to him with satirical curiosity, as a species of polite medical buffoon whom it rather amused her to become acquainted with.
Just as this had been accomplished, Lady Brambledown who stood nearest to the doorway caught sight of Madonna in the passage that led to it. Mrs.
Blyth; but Lady Brambledown, feeling amiably unwilling to resign her too soon, pitched on the poor engraver standing tremulous in the passage, as being quite clever enough to carry a message up-stairs, and sent him off to take the latest news from the studio to his daughter immediately. Thus it was that when Mr.
Thus, the aristocracy of race was usually impersonated, in his studio, by his one noble patron, the Dowager Countess of Brambledown; the aristocracy of art by two or three Royal Academicians; and the aristocracy of money by eight or ten highly respectable families, who came quite as much to look at the Dowager Countess as to look at the pictures.
Blyth, as much as to say, "You can't mistake that, I think?" Impossible! old Lady Brambledown, with her muff and snuff-box, to the very life. Close on the Dowager Countess followed a visitor of low degree.
There was Mr. Bullivant, the enthusiastic young sculptor, with the mangy flow of flaxen hair, and the plump, waxy face, who wrote poetry, and showed, by various sonnets, that he again differed completely about the young lady from the Dowager Countess of Brambledown and Mr. Gimble. This gentleman sang fluently, on paper using, by the way, a professional epithet about her "chiselled mouth",
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