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Dorothy, what do you say?" Dorothy laughed quietly and whole heartedly. "It reads like a bit from an old English romance. I'd just love to see such a house." "You don't care for this sort of thing, do you?" he asked, glancing round about him. "What sort of thing?" "This yacht, these silk pannellings, these gorgeous pictures, the carving, the gilt, the horribly expensive carpet."
He came to a stand before one of the windows and saw the glory of the morning flashing from the myriad spires and towers and roofs, and wondered why artists bothered about cows in pastures. Touching his knees was an antique Florentine bridal chest, with exquisite carving and massive lock. He threw back the lid and disclosed a miscellany never seen by any eye save his own.
From those majestic arches, that triumphant chant, there is but a step down to the worship of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. We went also into the Jesuits' church. The effect, to my eye, was that of a profusion of tawdry, dirty ornament; only the railing of the choir, which was a splendid piece of carving, out from a single block of Carrara marble.
There is still a half hour, before your evening work begins in the carving shop. Come in." "I am sorry I have not time now, to indulge myself in such luxury as a chat with you always proves.
Someone has said that the court is not architecture, but carving; and that suggests perfectly the decorative wealth of the composition. Architecture The style of architecture has been guessed at as everything from Romanesque and Gothic to Flamboyant Renaissance and Moorish.
In an earlier age, when the greatest could neither read nor write and manuscripts even in monasteries were rare, sculpture and carving were the layman's books, and Cathedrals were not only places of worship, they were the people's religious libraries where literature was cut in stone.
So David showed him the way up the crags, and went slowly in front of him, that he might help him up; but the priest climbed like a cat, looking blithely about him, and had no need of help, though he was encumbered with his robe. When they were got there, the priest looked curiously about him, and presently knelt down before the carving, and said a little prayer to himself.
Everything was ugly and expensive and almost everything was old- fashioned, all the level surfaces of tables, mantel, and piano top were filled with small articles, bits of ivory carving from China, leather boxes, majolica jars, photographs in heavy frames, enormous illustrated books, candlesticks, and odd teacups and trays.
It is not so, however, for where actual depth or projection exists, as in carving, be it only so much as the depth of a line, it makes foreshortening well-nigh impossible, except to a very limited extent. There must be, of course, some appearance of this quality, so a certain conventional standard has been set up, beyond which one only ventures at one's own risk.
Their voices, at first mere whispers, gradually grew louder, till at last they began to shout. 'Oh! the man, I abandon the man to you, said Jory, who was speaking of Fagerolles. 'He isn't worth much. And he out-generalled you, it's true. Ah! how he did get the better of you fellows, by breaking off from you and carving success for himself on your backs! You were certainly not at all cute.
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