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Updated: May 23, 2025
Those great towering thick walls, broken, brick-colour, burned by the sun, gave him an impression of the strength of the past. There were no trees, no houses near them; as if those imposing ruins precluded any life round about. Only one humble almond-tree held out its white flowers. Don Calixto and the Canon continued chatting. Don Calixto and the Canon went away to Spain.
I have given the servant one st., and paid one st. for brick-colour. October 1. On Monday after Michaelmas, 1520, I gave Thomas of Bologna a whole set of prints to send for me to Rome to another painter who should send me Raphael's work in return. I dined once with my wife. I paid three st. for the little tracts. The Bolognese has made my portrait; he means to take it with him to Rome.
Accordingly they turn down a long, deep lane, which looks certainly as if it would lead one to a red brook, for the road and banks are of a brick-colour. And so it does, for presently before them they discern a red mill, and a broad, pleasant ford, where a crystal brook dimples and sparkles over a bed of reddish-purple pebbles. "It is very clear," says the Major. "What's the fly to be, Vicar?"
We set off at eight in the morning and returned at six P.M., after dining on the mountain pinnacle, I dreadfully tired, but the child laughing as usual, and burnt Brick-colour for all bad effect. No horse or ass, untrained to the mountains, could have kept foot a moment where we penetrated, and even as it was one could not help the natural thrill.
"The honest thumb that persistently and patiently rubs the scales from sapphire and golden wings in order to be certain that the vination of the Ornithoptera is still underneath, is not the digit of inspiration," suggested Hamil. The disciple turned a dull brick-colour; but he betrayed neither his master nor himself. "What, in God's name," he asked heavily, "is an ornithoptera?"
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