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Bouvard protested, and he thought he had a recollection of artificial corpses being manufactured according to the custom of hot countries. Barberou, with whom he communicated, gave him some information about the matter. For ten francs a month they could have one of the manikins of M. Auzoux; and the following week the carrier from Falaise deposited before their gate an oblong box.
The dry bones took on some semblance of life and of human nature, and boys and girls were painted as real boys and genuine girls, instead of lifeless dolls and manikins. The reformation went on, until we now have a world of books for the young to choose from, very many of which are fresh and entertaining.
Gilded by those who report the comings and goings of those whom one should know, as Mrs. Bannister might put it, they seemed aliens, manikins that moved in a stage world. As such I tried to think of them, for it was best, but I had as well set myself to efface my memory. The last chapter of my own story was written by unknown hands.
They had not "put by." They were butterflies. So some women of the industrious, busy-bee order formed a society to look after the artists' models. They gave them dolls to dress, and on the sale of dolls the human manikins now live. Nor is any one who wants to help allowed to feel that he or she is too poor; that for his sou or her handiwork there is no need.
What is the matter? You should cheer up, and treat such manikins with lofty contempt. Zeus. Contempt? See what a number of them there is how set against us they are already and he has them fast by the ears. Mo. Well, but you have only to choose, and you can let down your golden cord, and then every man of them With earth and sky and all thou canst draw up. Ti.
Damn them, all of them, the crass manikins!" "Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write," Martin concurred. "Why, I was appalled at the quantities of rubbish written about Stevenson and his work." "Ghouls and harpies!" Brissenden snapped out with clicking teeth.
In most of these the gunners were directed by field telephones strung hastily, but the one near John still depended upon signal men. It was composed of eight five-inch guns, and John believed that its fire was most accurate and deadly. Using his glasses again, he saw that the disturbance among those manikins was increasing.
Oh, demons, ye are slaying me! Ah! fiends of Hell!" Aroused by these frightful howls, the three gypsies sprang also to their feet, to find themselves stung to death by the manikins. They raved, they shrieked, they swore. They staggered round the chamber.
This miniature theater was not much bigger than a man's coffin stood on end; the upper part was open and displayed a tinseled parlor a good-sized handkerchief would have answered for a drop-curtain; the footlights consisted of a couple of candle-ends an inch long; various manikins the size of dolls appeared on the stage and made long speeches at each other, gesticulating a good deal, and they generally had a fight before they got through.
The wonder is, considering the harebrained, slavering folly of the public, that any of the riding manikins are half as honest as they are; the wonder is that their poor little horsey brains are not led astray in such fashion as to make every race a farce.
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