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Updated: June 6, 2025
"Oh," said Therese, "there is nothing extraordinary in the fact that Perugino was avaricious yet honest. Interested people are not always the least scrupulous. There are many misers who are honest." "Naturally, darling," said Miss Bell. "Misers do not wish to owe anything, and prodigal people can bear to have debts.
So, this is to warn you that there is no subterfuge about this story and you might come upon stockings hung to the mantel and plum puddings and hark! the chimes! and wealthy misers loosening up and handing over penny whistles to lame newsboys if you read further. It was the front door of a furnished room house in West 'Teenth Street.
Best of all was to continue the creep up the long Grand' Rue to the gate of the haute ville and, passing beneath it, mount to the quaint and crooked rampart, with its rows of trees, its quiet corners and friendly benches where brown old women in such white-frilled caps and such long gold earrings sat and knitted or snoozed, its little yellow-faced houses that looked like the homes of misers or of priests and its dark château where small soldiers lounged on the bridge that stretched across an empty moat and military washing hung from the windows of towers.
Godain, a miser without money, the cruelest of misers, for he who seeks money surely takes precedence of him who hoards it, one turning his eagerness within himself, the other looking outside with terrible intentness, Godain represented the type of the majority of peasant faces.
His very smile was cunning, as if he had been studying smiles among the portraits of his misers.
To complete this phantasmagoric exhibition, we are presented with sybils and misers; parricides; maniacs in abundance; monks with scourges pursuing a naked youth streaming with blood; subterranean Jews surrounded by the skeletons of their wives and children; lovers blasted by lightning; Irish hags, Spanish grandees, shipwrecks, caverns, Donna Claras and Donna Isidoras, all opposed to each other in glaring and violent contrast, and all their adventures narrated with the same undeviating display of turgid, vehement, and painfully elaborated language.
If they HAD called themselves rich, most likely they wouldn't have been so. 'They lived and died very miserably. Did they not, sir? 'No, I don't know that they did, said Mr Boffin, curtly. 'Then they are not the Misers I mean. Those abject wretches 'Don't call names, Rokesmith, said Mr Boffin. That exemplary brother and sister lived and died in the foulest and filthiest degradation.
Here every foundling finds its lost mamma; Each rogue, repentant, melts his stern papa; Misers relent, the spendthrift's debts are paid, The cheats are taken in the traps they laid; One after one the troubles all are past Till the fifth act comes right side up at last, When the young couple, old folks, rogues, and all, Join hands, SO happy at the curtain's fall. Villain! Draw!
They judge of works of genius as misers do of hid treasure it is of no value unless they have it all to themselves. They will no more share a book than a mistress with a friend. If they suspected their favourite volumes of delighting any eyes but their own, they would immediately discard them from the list.
His pictures of religious subjects are full of tender earnestness and deep feeling, and his most important work was an altar-piece which is now in the Museum of Antwerp. His scenes from common life, his misers and lovers are spirited and truthful. His portrait and that of his second wife, both painted by himself, are in the gallery of the Uffizi in Florence.
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