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"Her model's a pretty common one for big passenger craft," Jake remarked to Dick as they went up the mole. "Still, the thing's curious. She wasn't at Adexe and she hasn't been here. She certainly passed us, steering for the land, and I don't see where she could have gone." Dick began to talk about something else, but next morning asked Stuyvesant for a day's leave.
Bianca's face had no expression, except the faint, distant curiosity which seems to say: 'You are a sealed book to me; I have always found you so. What you really think and do I shall never know. The little model's face wore a half-caught-out, half-stolid look. "Please go in," Bianca said; "my father will be glad to see you." She held the garden gate open for the girl to pass through.
It was the conventional Virgin's head, but Harding had said that he must send for his model and put his model's head upon it. He had taken Harding's advice and had sent for Lucy, and had put her pretty, quaint little head upon it. He had done a portrait of Lucy.
The tears, stealing forth, chased each other down the seamstress's thin cheeks. Her face had now but little likeness to the face with which she had stood confronting Hughs when she informed him of the little model's flight.
Her face had changed; it was no longer amused and negligent, but stamped with an expression of offence. 'Intolerable, it seemed to say, 'to bring a girl like that into a shop like this! I shall never come here again! The expression was but the outward sign of that inner physical discomfort Hilary himself had felt when he first saw the little model's stocking.
Nayland Smith brought me sharply to my senses. "Steady with the light, Petrie!" he hissed in my ear. "My skepticism has been shaken, to-night, but I am taking no chances." He moved from my side and forward toward that lovely, unreal figure which stood immediately before the model's throne and its background of plush curtains.
They and his craftsman's skill were all foundering now in a sea of evil living. But occasionally they were active still, and they had served him for the instant detection of that common egotistical paste of which Louie Grieve was made. He would have liked to chain her to his model's platform, to make her the slave of his fevered degenerating art. But she had no thrill for him.
For while the latter is quite Addisonian, not merely in dress but in body, its soul is blended of two natures the model's and the artist's in the rather uncanny fashion which makes Esmond as a whole so marvellous, except to those stalwarts who hold that, as nobody before the twentieth century knew anything about anything, Thackeray could not know about the eighteenth.
Nayland Smith brought me sharply to my senses. "Steady with the light, Petrie!" he hissed in my ear. "My scepticism has been shaken to-night, but I am taking no chances." He moved from my side and forward toward that lovely, unreal figure which stood immediately before the model's throne and its background of plush curtains.
The simplicity with which she dispensed with explanations surprised him likewise. His son-in-law did things well; he had brought her well coached, callous to all surprises. The master showed her the way to the model's room and remained outside, prudently, turning his head without knowing why, so as not to see through the half-opened door.
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