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The careful student of this picture, if he has been long in Paris, is some day startled by detecting, especially in the faces of the women represented, a surprising likeness to the women of Paris, and perceives, with a thrill of dismay, that the models for this picture of decadent human nature are furnished by the very city in which he lives. NEW YORK, April.
You won't think me inquisitive if I ask you something? Were you hard up when you came round the other night?" "Hard up's a mild term," replied Lauriston, frankly. "I hadn't a penny!" "Excepting a gold watch worth twelve or fifteen pounds," remarked Zillah, drily. "And how long had you been like that?" "Two or three days more or less," answered Lauriston.
Great was the surprise throughout the camp that Sunday morning when the news spread that Sebastopol was on fire and the enemy in full retreat. Most of the soldiers, worn out with their desperate day's work, slept through the explosions and woke to learn that the city so long fought for was at last theirs or so much of it as the flames were likely to leave.
In the south-west towers the snow-clad peak of Hermon, visible from every part of the Damascene plain. West, north-west, and north, stretches the long Antilibanus range, bare, gray, and flat-topped, except where about midway in its course, the rounded summit of Jebel Tiniyen breaks the uniformity of the line.
The chief, rejoicing in the name of "Lat," was a fine-looking old man about sixty, tattooed to the eyes, and with long grey hairs streaming down below his waist.
The hall is two hundred and forty-five feet long, with a magnificent dome in the center, under which stands the statue of Charles V., of Carrara marble, surrounded by twelve other monarchs of the house of Hapsburg. The walls are of variegated marble richly ornamented with gold, and the ceiling and dome are covered with brilliant fresco-paintings.
The faces of the dead with their staring eyes and open mouths and long, lank hair, cloyed with the sand and mud thrown up by the beating rain, looked indescribably repulsive. The buriers found it better to begin their work by covering the features with a cap or a broad-brimmed hat.
The three had been a long time in the village and had inspired all the people with a great dread by telling them of a giant race who wore fierce beards like the walrus; who killed with a great noise at long distances, and who would break any jail except one of ivory.
Once upon a time there lived a king who was so fond of wine that he could not go to sleep unless he knew he had a great flaskful tied to his bed-post. All day long he drank till he was too stupid to attend to his business, and everything in the kingdom went to rack and ruin.
Their eyes and their long drawn breath paid the true homage to that great master rightly interpreted a very rare occurrence. "Ah!" said she; "that was the hand could brandish Goliath's spear." "And this is how you reconcile us to losing you," said Vizard. "You might stay, at least, till you had gone through my poor mother's collection." "Ah! I wish I could. But I cannot. I must not.
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