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'What do you think of her? murmured Edith to Landi. Hypnotised and slightly puzzled as she was by her guest, she was particularly curious for his opinion, as she knew him to be the best judge of character of her acquaintance.
Well, between hunting, and fishing, and stuffing his birds, and preserving the skins of rare quadrupeds, and planting and pruning his trees, and teaching his boys, and training his dogs and horses, Landi was far from being idle. His boys, of course, assisted him in these occupations, as far as they were able. But he had another assistant Hugot. Who was Hugot?
Next, being commissioned by the family of the Martini to paint a chapel in S. Marco in Florence, he wrought in fresco on the walls many stories of the Madonna, and on the panel the Virgin herself in the midst of many saints; and in the same church, over the Chapel of S. Giovanni Evangelista, belonging to the family of the Landi, he painted in fresco an Angel Raphael with Tobias.
I'm trying to arrange for her to become a companion for Lady Conroy. He laughed. 'You are more particular about her being chaperoned than you were last week. 'Landi, Aylmer will never care for her. She's a dear, but he won't. 'Tu ne l'a pas revu? Lui Aylmer? 'No, but he's written to me. 'Oh, for heaven's sake, my child, burn the letters!
She pointed out how hurried, how urgent, how pressing it was to give an answer. 'He wants a war elopement, I see, said Landi. 'Mais ca ne se fait pas! 'Then what am I to say? 'Rien. 'But, Landi, you know I shan't really ever... 'Would it give you pleasure to see him married to the Spanish girl? 'She's not exactly Spanish she only looks it. Don't laugh like that!
It was a long road, but the Afghans were very kind to us, providing us with food and blankets and giving some of us new horses for our weary ones, and so we came at last to Landi Kotal at the head of the Khyber, where a long-legged English sahib heard our story and said "Shabash!" to Ranjoor Singh that means "Well done!" And so we marched down the Khyber, they signaling ahead that we were coming.
The door opened and the last guest appeared. He was so useful. He approached Landi at once. 'Ah, cher maitre, quel plaisir! he said with his South Kensington accent and his Oxford manner. 'C'est vrai? asked Landi, who had his own way of dismissing a person in a friendly way. Coniston began talking to him of a song.
Then whole days would be spent in the arrangement of these new acquisitions. Thus did Landi and his family pass their time. Hugot was cook, valet, groom, butler, and errand boy. I have already stated that no other domestic, male or female, lived in the house: Hugot, therefore, was chambermaid as well. His manifold occupations, however, were not so difficult to fulfil as might at first appear.
'How is it your conscientiousness with regard to Bruce doesn't come in the way now? Why would it ruin him less now than formerly? 'Bruce doesn't seem to matter so much. 'Because he isn't fighting? asked Sir Tito. 'Oh no, Landi! I never thought of that. But you know he always imagines himself ill, and he's quite all right really. He'll enjoy his grievance. I know he won't be unhappy.
I had heard Landi, the Chevalier Landi, lauded to the skies by the Italians as the greatest modern colorist. He was made a chevalier, elected a member of the Academy at Florence and of the Academy of St. Luke in Rome, and there were his pictures which I was told I must by all means see. They are not merely bad, they are execrable.
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