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Having replaced the easel and drawing, he seated himself on an ottoman, put his elbows on his knees, laid his forehead in his hands, and began to meditate aloud. "Yes," he said, with a profound sigh, "I love her that's as clear as daylight; and she does not love me that's clearer than daylight. Unrequited love! That's what I've come to! Nevertheless, I'm not in wild despair. How's that?
There are too many of you. I shouldn't have known you in the procession yesterday." Don Ippolito did not respond. He rose and went toward his portrait on the easel, and examined it long, with a curious minuteness. Then he returned to his chair, and continued to look at it. "I suppose that it resembles me a great deal," he said, "and yet I do not feel like that. I hardly know what is the fault.
Long before his day of departure came he had dusted out his old hair trunk there were other and more modern trunks to be had, but Oliver loved this one because it had been his father's gathered his painting materials together his easel, brushes, leather case, and old slouch hat that he wore to fish in at home and spent his time counting the days and hours when he could leave the world behind him and, as he wrote Fred, "begin to live."
He paused an instant before the unfinished picture on the easel, then when the artist coolly took the canvas and placed it with its face to the wall, he turned with deliberate rudeness and craned his neck so that he could look behind the screen. A leering smile came over his coarse features.
Upon this, Edmund came forenoon and afternoon, and if the picture did not make much progress, the love-affair made a great deal, and entwined itself more and more firmly. Thus Edmund was very often obliged to stop painting, and not only that, but he had very frequently to get down from the scaffold upon which he and his easel were placed. At this particular hour and moment, Mr.
So Betty sat there on the bare wide brown stair, staring at the window, till things had steadied themselves, and then she went back to her work. Her easel was there, and her half-rubbed out drawing No, that was not her drawing. It was a head, vaguely but very competently sketched, a likeness no, a caricature of Betty herself. She looked round one quick but quite sufficient look.
Her easel had been set up in the dining-room, where she could work without fear of chance intruders, who gravitated either to the drawing-room or the study: and on this fourth morning after her arrival, she was standing at it with Desmond, who had looked in for a word with her before starting for the Lines.
But quickly the painter was forgotten, and once more her mind reverted to Larry at last Larry was coming back! only to have the painter, after a minute, interrupt her excited imagination with: "What's the matter with your tongue, Maggie? Generally you stab back with it quick enough." She turned, still sulky and silent, and gazed with cynical superiority at the easel.
Of course, if she had not dragged him down, she had equally, as Miss Croft contended, failed to "lift him up" she had not led him back to the easel. To put the brush into his hand again what a vocation for a wife! But Mrs. Gisburn appeared to have disdained it and I felt it might be interesting to find out why.
And one evening he did come to the end, the illustrative sketches complete, the beautiful plans all made, the last calculation for the specifications set down. "There! It's done." He propped a sketch on the easel and leaned back, sighing. Shirley looked up from her novel. "Thank goodness at last! Are you sure you've made it the very best you can?" "Yes."
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