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For a long moment after the final liquid note had died away was utter stillness, an awed silence; then some one ventured to clap, others joined in, and upon this sound came shouts, cries, cheer on cheer a frantic ovation. "By Gad, Perry," exclaimed my uncle George, blinking moist lashes. "She she can sing, ye know! What I mean is she can sing, b'gad! What d' you say, Jervas?"
For his portrait of the Queen sent to Philip of Spain, he was rewarded with one hundred pounds, a gold chain, and a salary of one hundred pounds a quarter as court-painter to their Majesties. There is some obscurity about the appointments of painters to the king during the reign of George the Second. Jervas was succeeded by Kent, who died in 1748. Shackleton succeeded Kent.
Dryden published a translation in prose of Du Fresnoy's Art of Painting, with a preface containing a parallel between painting and poetry. Mr. Pope has addressed a copy of verses to Mr. Jervas in praise of Dryden's translation. In 1697 his translation of Virgil's works came out.
But, as I turned, my uncle Jervas laid his hand on my arm, a white, elegant hand strangely out of place on my rough and weather-beaten coat-sleeve. "Pray accept our sincerest apologies, Peregrine," said he. Now at this I glanced up in wondering surprise, for in the touch of this slim hand, in voice and look, I had an indefinable sense of comradeship that thrilled me with sudden pride.
UNCLE JERVAS. George is exactly right, Julia. Our nephew is well enough in many ways, I'll admit, but corporeally he is no Vereker; he fills the eye but meanly Sir Jervas explain! UNCLE JERVAS. Well, my dear Julia, scan him, I beg; regard him with an observant eye, the eye not of a doting woman but a dispassionate critic examine him!
"Pray, Jervas," said aunt Julia, lifting white imperious hand, "suffer me one word, at least; in justice to myself I can sit mute no longer " "Mute?" exclaimed uncle George, grasping whisker again. "Mute, were you, Julia; oh, begad, why then " "George silence I plead!" said my aunt, and folding her white hands demurely on her knee gazed down at them wistfully beneath drooping lashes.
"My good uncles," I called, "you are two to one two very large, ponderous men; pray excuse me therefore if I keep my distance." "My poor young dolt," quoth uncle Jervas a trifle breathlessly, "we merely desire a word with you " "Aye, just a word, Perry!" cried uncle George. "Besides, we've brought your hat and coat, d'ye see." "You have no other purpose?"
"The diamond merchants with whom I travelled had a great deal of business to transact at various places; and this was the cause of much delay to me, which I could scarcely bear with patience; for now that I had gratified my curiosity, I was extremely desirous to return to Madras with my little treasure. Jervas, addressing himself to the miners at Mr.
"A raven's wing!" pursued my uncle Jervas. "Time hath not changed the wonder of it " "Phoh!" exclaimed my aunt. "Devil a white hair to be seen, Julia!" added uncle George. "While as for myself, Julia," sighed my uncle Jervas, "my fellow discovered no fewer than four white hairs above my right ear this morning, alas! And look at poor George as infernally grey as a badger."
"You mean, sir, what excuse do I offer for not being politely vicious as seems so much the fashion?" "I confess you puzzle me, boy, for you are anything but an angel in pantaloons. I have occasionally thought to remark in you a hint of unplumbed deeps of passions as hot and fierce as " "Your own, Uncle Jervas?"
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