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But since the days when these great critics wrote their treatises, with what gifts innumerable has Artifice been loaded by Science! Many little partitions must be added to the narthecium before it can comprehend all the new cosmetics that have been quietly devised since classical days, and will make the modern toilet chalks away more splendid in its possibilities.
While Miss Pollingray was speaking, my eyes were fixed on a Vidal crayon drawing, faintly coloured with chalks, of a foreign lady I could have sworn to her being French young, quite girlish, I doubt if her age was more than mine. She is pretty, is she not? said Miss Pollingray.
The last time we had seen the room the walls had been bare and white. Now they were covered with the most splendid drawings you can think of, all done in coloured chalk I don't mean mixed up, like we do with our chalks but one picture was done in green, and another in brown, and another in red, and so on.
A third says, reprovingly, that "such cases are coming too frequent." Mr. Moon explains the attendant circumstances, and puts a changed face on the whole affair. One juryman chalks, and another juryman chalks, and Mr. Moon says, by way of bringing the matter to a settled point, "It is a bad ending to a wretched life." A solemn stillness ensues, and then follows the verdict.
During that time I scrawled on everything at all seasons; my copy-books, and even my schoolmates', I decorated with marginal drawings of heads, some full-face, others in profile; on the walls of the dormitory I drew faces and landscapes with coloured chalks. So it may easily be imagined how often I was condemned to bread and water.
Chalks scanned Blake's features for an instant with an intentness that suggested a mingling of perplexity and malice; then, all at once, I saw a light flash in his eyes, which forthwith began to twinkle in a manner that struck me as ominous. 'In my early youth, Blake continued, 'this memory of mine was, if I may so phrase it, piecemeal and occasional.
There is no doubt that with them 'ere chalks and a nice smooth stone that Raphael I 'ave been to the National Gallery and 'ave studied 'is work, and werry fine some of it is, although I don't altogether hold but that's another matter. What was I a-saying of? I remember, that with them 'ere chalks, and a nice smooth stone, there's no reason why a masterpiece shouldn't be done.
If you unite in your own person the artist and the player; if you occasionally handle the painter's brush as well as the field-marshal's truncheon for have I not seen you lead the British troops with heroic valour through the awful passes of Cabul, which I had seen you creating with lamp-black and grey chalks in the morning? it will only prove that your genius is universal, or, at least, not limited to one mode of development; but that, as D'Israeli is an orator and a statesman, you are a scene-painter and performer.
Patronizin' a Britisher!!! A critter that has Lucifer's pride, Arkwright's wealth, and Bedlam's sense, ain't it rich? Oh, wake snakes and walk your chalks, will you! Give me your figgery-four Squire, I'll go in up to the handle for you. Hit or miss, rough or tumble, claw or mud-scraper, any way, you damn please, I'm your man." But to return to my narrative.
"I will talk to him about foreign parts," thought I, "and try if I can't make him forget that he is sitting for his picture in that way." While I was pointing my chalks Mr. Faulkner was walking up and down the room. He chanced to see the portfolio I had brought with me leaning against the wall, and asked if there were any sketches in it.
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