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M. Verduret paid no attention to this interruption, perhaps he did not hear it; perhaps he did not care to argue the matter. "Now, let us see if we can discover whence the printed words were taken to compose this letter." He approached the window, and began to study the pasted words with all the scrupulous attention which an antiquarian would devote to an old, half-effaced manuscript.
Thou wilt be the grandest lady in the town, and yet the most excellent mother. Thy first daughter shall be called Maja that is a pretty name, and reminds thee of past days!" A cross having a Latin inscription, half-effaced, marks the spot." It was spring, fresh, life-bearing spring!
The struggling gleams of sense and memory in these unhappy people reminded me a beautiful passage in "Tupper's Proverbial Philosophy": "On all things created remaineth the half-effaced signature of God; Somewhat of fair and good, though blotted by the finger of corruption." What a sublime truth! How beautifully and forcibly expressed! With what a mournful dignity it invests our fallen nature!
A few minutes later, a tall, massive portal on the Rue des Vieilles-Haudriettes, bearing on the escutcheon that betrayed the former family mansion, beneath half-effaced armorial bearings, a sign in blue letters, Wall Papers, was thrown wide open to allow the wedding-carriage to pass through.
It was an antique, covered with half-effaced inscriptions, crowns, anchors, eagles; and it had two handles near the trunnions, like those of a tureen. The knob on the breach was fashioned into a dolphin's head; and by a comical conceit, the touch-hole formed the orifice of a human ear; and a stout tympanum it must have had, to have withstood the concussions it had heard.
The commissary of police had handed him the letter, and he was studying it with the closest attention. The paper on which it was written was of the ordinary kind; the ink was blue. In one of the corners was a half-effaced stamp, of which one could just distinguish the word Beaumarchais. This was enough for Lecoq.
Those who are well acquainted with Rome, who have frequented the stations and love the basilicas, and especially that venerable old pile of San Lorenzo, with its upper and lower chapel, its magnificent columns, its beautiful pulpit, its wide portico with half-effaced frescoes, and its rare mosaics those paintings in stone which time itself cannot destroy; those whose eyes have gazed with delight on the glorious view as they approached it, and whose ears are familiar with the sound of the mendicant's voice, to whom the remembrance of Francesca's story may have won, perchance, an additional dole, can form to themselves with ease a picture of the scene; and when they visit it again in reality, may be tempted to look out for some saintly face, for some sweet, angel-like countenance, amongst the sordid and suffering groups before them, and wonder if ever again such charity as Francesca's will animate a woman's heart.
The pavement is entirely made of flat tombstones, inscribed with half-effaced names of the dead people beneath; and the wall all round bears the marble tablets which give a fuller record of their virtues. I think it was from a meditation in these cloisters that Addison wrote one of his most beautiful pieces in the Spectator.
"Years after, I cannot say just how many, the half-effaced negative came back to form under the chemical of some new perception of the significance of human tragedy. "It occurred to me to use the event as the basis of a story. To this end I set forth to study the subject. I had heard nothing in those days about 'material, and conscience in the use of it, and little enough about art.
The surrounding landscape the dwelling place of the poet his tomb facing the heavens, and disdaining even the shadow of trees the half-effaced inscription of that hallowed shrine all these seemed appropriate, and melted the gazer's heart. How useless! how intrusive! are the superfluous decorations of art, amid the simpler scenes of nature. Ornament is here misplaced.
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