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I bought all, without asking the prices, because each one was more becoming to the girl than its predecessor, and not to have all, would have been like deliberately destroying so many original Gainsboroughs or Sir Joshuas. The child's hair, by the way, is extraordinarily vital.
It was no less in keeping with her character and her life that the feeling she suffered under, and manifested, was very easily appeased. Harry promised to ask the Gainsboroughs to her funeral. Addie Tristram's conscientious scruples were entirely laid to rest; with a sigh of peace she settled herself to die.
Lady Tatham said perhaps " Tatham was embarrassed and bored by the request. "I have no doubt we can find you a pony," he said evasively, and taking up the Bradshaw he walked away. Felicia stood alone and motionless in the big hall, amid its Gainsboroughs and Romneys, its splendid cabinets and tapestries, a childish figure in a blue dress, with crimson cheeks, and compressed lips.
Ranking artists in the order of their merit is an unprofitable business, but it may gratify some methodical minds to have it stated that these canvases by Stuart are not in the same class as good Gainsboroughs or Reynolds. With the best of other contemporary portraits they stand approximately on a footing of equality.
On reaching the bottom of the staircase he had turned into the picture gallery, a long, lofty room panelled with Jacobean oak on both sides and hung with choice canvases, the work of the best masters, three or four fine Gainsboroughs, Peter Lelys and Romneys being among the most notable examples.
None the less, he held straight on his course; and the spinster ladies were a little shocked to observe that Lady Tristram's illness did not interfere at all with her son's courtship; people in that position of life were certainly curious. A new vexation had come upon him, the work of his pet aversions, the Gainsboroughs.
People might suppose him ashamed of his origin. No, no! I mean those two or three old pictures at the end of the room. Come and look at them they are on our way." He led her to inspect them. They proved to be two Gainsboroughs and a Raeburn, representing ancestors on Lady Lucy's side. Mr.
"In fact I hardly thought of you as an individual at all. You were the Gainsboroughs." "And you didn't like the Gainsboroughs?" she cried in a flash of intuition. "No, I didn't," he admitted. "Why not?" "A prejudice," answered Harry Tristram after a pause. She crossed her legs, sticking one foot out in front of her and looking at it thoughtfully.
But the Gainsboroughs were soon to be driven out of his head by something more immediate and threatening.
A Claude, a Murillo, a Greuze, a couple of Gainsboroughs, hung there with high complacency. Searle strolled about, scarcely speaking, pale and grave, with bloodshot eyes and lips compressed. He uttered no comment on what we saw he asked but a question or two.
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