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There was not one of the party who by this time had not studied guide-books enough to know something of Muiden, Laren, Baarn, Hilversum, and Amersfoort; but they might have searched Baedeker and all his rivals from end to end without finding even the name of Spaakenberg; and little quaint, hidden Spaakenberg was to be the clou of our expedition.
What if and his thoughts ran ahead to the day in the redwoods, that day set apart by his mind as the clou of the excursion what if the thing her eyes seemed to say to him should be true? What if she could love him, and give up her world, that world which he saw vaguely, as a dazzling vision? What if, to-morrow, she too should know the thrill of "extra hazard"?
In the whole course of his professional experience he had never encountered anything on a par with this capricious blend of comedy and tragedy. Of course, it did not escape his acute brain that Curtis was right in assuming that the clou of the situation lay with Jean de Courtois. Dead or alive, the Frenchman must be found, and found quickly.
There is nothing in Malory, nor in any other source, so far as I am aware, which suggested to Tennyson the clou of the situation the use of Guinevere's crown as a cognisance by Balin. This device enables the poet to weave the rather confused and unintelligible adventures of Balin and Balan into the scheme, and to make it a stage in the progress of his fable.
"She is a very remarkable person eh?" said Henfrey, again defeated. "Remarkable! Oh, yes. She is of the grande monde." "Is that still your argot?" he asked. "Oh no. Mademoiselle Yvonne is a lady. Some say she is the daughter of a rich Englishman. Others say she is just a common adventuress." "The latter is true, I suppose?" "I think not. She has le clou for the eponge d'or."
It was painted in 1643, about a year after he had finished The Night Watch, a jewel of a Rembrandt and the clou of this collection. There are some weak modern pictures and examples by Terburg, Metsu, Flinck, Jordaens, Cuyp, Potter, Brouwer the smoker, a fine work; a Hobbema mill and others.
The writer calling upon Henry Bacon found him painting a group of transatlantic travellers on a steamer’s deck. He pointed out a scheme of triangles which together formed one great triangle, but said he was looking for the last point for the base of this. A monthly magazine was suggested, which, laid open on its face, proved le dernier clou.
It would certainly be the clou of any exhibition in which it might be placed. During one sitting Cora ventured to remark that she thought it a pity he did not intend to make the portrait more complete, and suggested the addition of various accessories which in her opinion would very much improve it. "It's by far the most complete thing I have ever done," he said.
At the great hunting exposition recently held at Vienna the clou of the display was a French royal hunting-lodge in the style of Louis XVI, hung with veritable Gobelin tapestries, loaned by the French government and picturing "The Hunt in France." It was called by the critics a unique painting in a beautiful frame.
On the 20th, she and the duke arrive at Paris; and on the 25th go to 'St Clou. The following is the official notice of her death:
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