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They would be studying a people whose lives are as little known as were those of the natives in the heart of Africa before the days of Livingstone. As she thought of these things Marian's cheeks flushed with excitement. "What new thrill will come to us here?" her lips whispered. There was a shallow space beneath a tray of color-tubes in the very bottom of Marian's paint-box.
Suddenly he set a large picture on the easel that quite filled the frame. "Trotting Match at the Pymantoning County Fair," he announced, and he turned away and began to make tea in a little battered copper kettle over a spirit-lamp, on a table strewn with color-tubes in the corner. "Ah, yes," said Mrs. Westley. "I remember this at the American Artists; three or four years ago, wasn't it?
He turned away and began ordering the color-tubes and pencils on a table against the wall, putting them close together in very neat, straight rows. Presently he said: "Perhaps Miss Vervain also advised you to go to America?" "Yes," answered the priest reverently. "She had thought of everything.
It was my first draught of a long holiday; my breathing-spell; my time for loose neckties and flannel shirts and a kit slung over my shoulder crammed with brushes and color-tubes; my time for loafing and inviting my soul.
For myself, I make use of a common white metallic dinner-plate, known as iron-stone china, costing another ten cents, for my sky-palette, squeezing the color-tubes in a row around its edge and my Chinese white below them on one side toward the bottom. The result may be seen in some of the illustrations accompanying this text.
In the middle of the room stood two large easels, a divan, a round table, and three or four chairs; while the floor was thickly strewn with empty color-tubes, bits of painting-rag, corks, cigar-ends, and all kinds of miscellaneous litter. All these things I had observed as I passed in; for this, be it remembered, was my first visit to Müller in his own territory.
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