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Updated: May 1, 2025
You pass a little church, lolling and lopped with the weight of the years; and through its doors you catch a vista of old pillars and soft half-lights, and twinkling candles set upon the high altar. Not even the jimcrackery with which the Latin races dress up their holy places and the graves of their dead can entirely dispel its abiding, brooding air of peace and majesty.
I painted like a blooming Turk hired a studio filled it with jimcrackery got the best-looking models wore a velvet coat and grew long hair. But it was all useless. I earned twenty-five dollars in three years. I had a picture in a dealer's shop his place burnt down I made him fork over. Then a deceased relative left me $150,000 said I deserved it for working so hard in Paris. A good one, eh?
So pardon me, fair ladies, for any reflection upon your crinoline, and accept as my apology this candid avowal that while you are naturally angelic, and always beautiful beyond comparison, in spite of what you do to disfigure your lovely persons, we men are naturally savages, and are driven to the barbarous expedient of adorning and beautifying our ugly bodies with gewgaws, tinsel, and jimcrackery, in order that they may be acceptable in your eyes.
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