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Updated: May 1, 2025
She loved the great, restless harbor and the vast, misty sea beyond; she loved the tides, keeping their world-old tryst with the shore, and the gulls, and the croon of the waves, and the call of the winds in the fir woods at noon and even; she loved the moonrises and the sunsets, and the clear, calm nights when the stars seemed to have fallen into the water and to be a little dizzy from such a fall.
A simple line which might express the round of the cheek or the fulness of the arm, and which would answer for the uniform drapery of the old school, would not serve to explain the subtle quality of one of Quartley's moonrises or the vigor and dash of one of Chase's outdoor figures sketched in oil.
I'm dying to see a real show a smart one that hasn't run two hundred nights on Broadway one with pretty girls, and pink tights, and a lot of moonrises, and sunsets and things, and a prima donna in a dress so stunning that all the women in the audience are busy copying it so they can describe it to their home-dressmaker next day."
Of evenings soon after his return to London Mrs Bridell-Fox writes: "He was full of enthusiasm for Venice, that Queen of Cities. He used to illustrate his glowing descriptions of its beauties, the palaces, the sunsets, the moonrises, by a most original kind of etching.
Moonrises hurt him with their loveliness and he could sit for hours gazing at a white narcissus much to his aunt's exasperation. He was solitary by nature. He felt horribly alone in a crowded building but never in the woods or in the wild places along the shore. It was because of this that his aunt could not get him to go to church which was a horror to her orthodox soul.
Helen would begin, gazing as if she saw a visionary cascade, "I've a good mind to go with you myself, Willoughby only I can't. Think of the sunsets and the moonrises I believe the colours are unimaginable." "There are wild peacocks," Rachel hazarded. "And marvellous creatures in the water," Helen asserted. "One might discover a new reptile," Rachel continued.
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