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'Painter? demanded Chalks. A shadow crossed his face. 'You are surely familiar with my name? 'Never heard it that I know of, answered Chalks; then, raising his voice, 'Any gentleman present ever heard of what did you say your name was? he asked in an aside; and being informed, went on, 'of Mr. Davis Blake? No one spoke. 'Mud? queried Chalks. 'Mud? repeated Mr. Blake, perplexed.
"Who fired upon Fort Sumter? That's the question," said Thomas, his eyes flashing with indignation. "Why didn't they give up the fort, then?" "Give up the fort! Shall the United States cave in before the little State of South Carolina. Not by a two chalks!" "I think the North has been teasing and vexing the South till the Southerns can't stand it any longer. There'll be war now."
This sickness, you say, must end in death; or this journey must, if you are in life, be taken to a foreign shore, and last farewells be spoken; or this year you must enter upon this new profession so arduous and so full of risks. And thus each one, with more or less degree of certainty, chalks an imaginary outline of his future course.
"Never!" cried Gamelin, who was genuinely oblivious. After clearing one end of the deal table of the papers and books, brushes and chalks that littered it, the citoyenne laid out on it the earthenware soup-bowl, two tin porringers, two iron forks, the loaf of brown bread and a jug of thin wine. Mother and son ate the soup in silence and finished their meal with a small scrap of bacon.
From that time forth, Madame Descoings, who humored the fancies of the two cherubim, kept Joseph supplied with pencils and red chalks, prints and drawing-paper. At school, the future colorist sketched his masters, drew his comrades, charcoaled the dormitories, and showed surprising assiduity in the drawing-class.
If, on the other hand, it is to be used as a mineralogical term, I do not see how the modern and the ancient chalks are to be separated and, looking at the matter geographically, I see no reason to doubt that a boring rod driven from the surface of the mud which forms the floor of the mid-Atlantic would pass through one continuous mass of Globigerina mud, first of modern, then of tertiary, and then of mesozoic date; the "chalks" of different depths and ages being distinguished merely by the different forms of other organisms associated with the Globigerinoe.
If we could but get a peep at the tally of Dame Fortune, where like a vigilant landlady she chalks up the debtor and creditor accounts of thoughtless mortals, we should find that every good is checked off by an evil; and that however we may apparently revel scot-free for a season, the time will come when we must ruefully pay off the reckoning.
On mats some tens of naked pupils were seated holding wax tablets in their hands. One wall was of smooth alabaster; before it stood a teacher who wrote characters with chalks of various colors. When the prince entered, the pupils, almost all of the same age that he was, fell on their faces. The teacher bowed, and stopped his actual labor to explain to the youths the great meaning of knowledge.
At a sign from him, Jan put his colored chalks into a little pouch in front of him, and drew in powerful chiaroscuro with soft black chalk and whitening. These sketches were visible for some time, and the interest of the crowd did not abate. Suddenly a flush came over Jan's wan cheeks.
The walls were rather over-decorated in coloured chalks, the man-headed-snake motive predominating; they were also loopholed for firing into the hayloft.
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