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Updated: June 22, 2025
There was no foolish gilding and gingerbread work, to take the eye of landsmen and passengers, but everything was ``ship-shape. There was no rust, no dirt, no rigging hanging slack, no fag-ends of ropes and ``Irish pendants'' aloft, and the yards were squared ``to a t'' by lifts and braces. The mate was a hearty fellow, with a roaring voice, and always wide awake.
They don't behave like relatives! Are there no cigarettes?" Anna Andreevna, a quiet, weary, feeble woman, replied tonelessly: "You know there are none. But I will look for some butt-ends in a moment. Lina sometimes throws away the unused cigarette wraps." "What bourgeois they are throwing away fag-ends and keeping servants!" her husband complained.
A female statue requires more or less drapery to set off the outlines of the figure and to give it dignity. We feel this even in the finest Greek work like the Venus of Cnidos. In this matter Hawthorne certainly exposes his Puritanic education, and he also places too high a value on the carving of buttonholes and shoestrings by Italian workmen. Such things are the fag-ends of statuary.
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