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"Perhaps he'd destroyed his wife's. I think Hermione might be a great mother." Miss Townly blushed faintly. She did nearly everything faintly. That was partly why she admired Hermione. "And a great mother is rare," continued Mrs. Creswick. "Good mothers are, thank God, quite common even in London, whatever those foolish people who rail at the society they can't get into may say.
She painted small watercolour landscapes herself, with a delicate economy of means and a graceful Norwich convention; her sketch-books were filled with abbeys gently washed in, river-banks in sepia by which the elect might be dimly reminded of Liber Studiorum, and woodland scenes over which the ghost of Creswick had faintly breathed.
Turner has even gone farther, and given us pictures of pure color, as in the illustration of Goethe's theory of colors, a fantasie of the palette. And why shall Turner not orchestrate color as well as Verdi sound? why not give us his synchromies as well as Beethoven his symphonies? You prefer common sense, Harding and Fripp, Stanfield and Creswick?
Creswick's tea, a blend of China tea with another whose origin was a closely guarded secret, was the most delicious in London. There are merciful dispensations of Providence even for Miss Townlys, and Mrs. Creswick was at home with a blazing fire.
And, after all how much of nature can you express? You confest yourself yesterday baffled by all the magnificence around you. 'Yes! to paint it worthily one would require to be a Turner, a Copley Fielding, and a Creswick, all in one.
As in the drawing-room, the walls are hidden from view by artistic works Landseer, Frith, Phil Morris, Müller, Ansdell, Ansdell and Phillip, Hefner, Weiser, Creswick, Sant, John Wilson, Junr., Solomon, and Henry O'Neil the latter artist's "Return of the Wanderer" being in a conspicuous position. As Sir Robert points them out, he seems to see an unwritten story on every canvas.
But to a certain extent their influence undoubtedly was prejudicial in that respect. In suggesting another reason for the cessation of Turner s influence he is quite as near the mark, namely, the action of the Royal Academy in admitting no landscape painters to membership. At Turner's death in 1851 there were only three, among whom was Creswick.
"I heard people talking in the next street on my way home. Is it true? But the servants have told me so. They say our poor friend but there has been an arrest, hasn't there?" The rector nodded gravely. "And who? Tell me about it, Mr. Potswood tell me!" "I think I must see how Miss Creswick is doing," said Hewitt, speaking across to Plummer and making for the door.
Yet Cooper in his day was idolised: he had a fame as high, if not as widely spread, as that of Henry Irving or Edwin Booth at present. William Creswick lately dead at an advanced age in London was seen upon the New York stage as Shylock in 1840; Macready in 1841; Charles Kean in 1845. With the latter, Ellen Tree played Portia.
"Well, now she is going to do a thing we all dream of and a great many of us do. Will it answer? He's ten years younger than she is. Can it answer?" "One can never tell whether a union of two human mysteries will answer," said Mrs. Creswick, judicially. "Maurice Delarey is wonderfully good-looking." "Yes, and Hermione isn't." "That has never mattered in the least." "I know. I didn't say it had.
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