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Updated: May 4, 2025
Any one, with no preceding profound study of history, who takes a few well-known historical facts as a foundation for an airy castle of romantic invention and fantastic adventure, may easily write an Historical Romance; for him history is only the nude manikin which he clothes and adorns according to his own taste, and to which he gives the place and position most agreeable to himself.
"It's no lie at all, manikin," said the painter, as he unwrapped the picture; "it is as genuine a Salvator Rosa as I ever painted. Thou hast never seen me at work upon it, and therefore canst not know who the author is. Thou hast no dexterity, my little simpleton; I ought not to have trusted thee with the business."
"Mother Manikin, I want to have a little Bible Meeting for some of the poor things round here the mothers who have little babies, and can't get to any place of worship, and a few more, who are often ill, and can't walk far. Do you know," he said, "anybody in this row who would let me have a room for my class?" 'Well, child, I danced for joy; I really did, child.
Rosalie was sitting close to Mother Manikin, and she listened very attentively to all that her old friend said. 'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow: that was the text of the sermon. 'A long way from here, my friends, said Mr. Westerdale, 'a long way from here, in the land of Palestine, is a beautiful mountain, the top of which is covered with the purest, whitest snow.
Beechinor is about to make a new will, he said, without removing the pen from his mouth, 'and ye will kindly witness it. The small room appeared to be full of Baines he was so large and fleshy and assertive. The furniture, even the chest of drawers, was dwarfed into toy-furniture, and Beechinor, slight and shrunken-up, seemed like a cadaverous manikin in the bed. 'Now, Mr.
Thomas Aquinas got wrathful at some of its syllogisms and smashed its head. The idea is reasonable enough. Mental action will yet be reduced to laws as definite as those which govern the physical. Why should not I accomplish a manikin which shall preach as original discourses as the Rev. Dr. Allchin, or talk poetry as mechanically as Paul Anapest?
How different in every way she was to Rosalie! What if her Aunt Lucy was vexed with her for coming? She had had much trouble from Rosalie's father; was it likely she would welcome his child? Sometimes Rosalie felt inclined to turn back and go to old Mother Manikin. But she remembered how her mother had said 'If ever you can, dear, you must go to your Aunt Lucy, and give her that letter.
We started off finally on foot through streets silent as the grave not a person, not a lamp, not so much as a barking dog, as queer and as creepy as some made-up thing in a theatre. Once we stumbled past a naked and dismembered trunk set up beside a doorway a physician's manikin that chance or some sinister clown had left there.
'Then please will you take me to Mother Manikin? 'With the greatest of pleasure, if she were here, said the giant, with a bow; 'but the unfortunate part of the business is that she is not here! 'No, she's not here, said the dwarfs. 'Oh dear! oh dear! said the child, with a little cry of disappointment. 'Very sorry, indeed, my dear, said the giant. 'I'm afraid I sha'n't do as well?
It is really wonderful how the clothes fall away from the manikin, how with the best effort at draping they in fact refuse to be put on at all. The reason is simple; for the constant refrain of the study is that no clothes were ever found. The manikin is therefore always in evidence for lack of covering, and ends by having to apologize for its very existence.
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