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Updated: June 24, 2025
The windows above the altar are the only ones that retain painted panes of the sixteenth century. Among the other objects contained in this chapel which is really a connoisseur's collection of art objects of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries can be mentioned the two marvellously carved tombs of the Condestable and of his wife.
I was supposed to discuss the technical excellence of the volume from the connoisseur's viewpoint. "The setting," I replied judicially, "is worthy of the gem. The dark green cover, elaborately tooled, the old English lettering, the heavy linen paper, mark this as one of our very choicest publications.
"My favorite wine, sir." "I thought so. Taken in moderation, port induces sound reasoning. I have some Alto Douro of '61. I'll bring you a bottle." Tomlinson was mystified, a trifle scandalized perhaps; but he bowed his acknowledgments. "Sir, I will appreciate it greatly." "I know you will. My Alto Douro goes down no gullet but a connoisseur's." Even in his agitation, Tomlinson smiled.
In Hermon's Olympian Banquet he who also held the office of a high priest of Apollo in Alexandria had even seen an insult to the dignity of the deity. In the Street Boy Eating Figs, the connoisseur's eye had recognised a peculiar masterpiece, but he had been repelled by this also; for, instead of a handsome boy, it represented a starving, emaciated vagabond.
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