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Turly, who was riding from Kimberley to Pretoria on the newly-painted rocking-horse, waved an assent, and Nurse Nancy left the nursery without misgiving. She was not long gone before Terry began to get impatient with the new dolls.
And when they got them they grumbled. The cavilling at every newly-painted likeness is notorious. And there are, of course, certain superfine persons who, in the case of a famous artist, think very like the sitter, and are satisfied so long as they get an ornamental picture, or one well up to date. But the truly human grumble, and are more than justified in doing so.
You have the streets of a metropolis without their animated bustle you have the stillness of the country without its birds and flowers. The reader will please to bring before him a quiet street in the quiet country town of C , in a quiet evening in quiet June; the picture is not mirthful two young dogs are playing in the street, one old dog is watching by a newly-painted door.
"That's good!" exclaimed the man. "My little boy wants to ride his Rocking Horse. He misses him very much." Back home went the White Rocking Horse. And when Dick saw him he clapped his hands and cried: "Oh, how glad I am! May I take a ride?" "If you are careful of the newly-painted leg," his father answered. "I'll lift you up into the saddle."
The fresh matting on the floors, the light cane sofa and chairs, the white muslin curtains and newly-painted green blinds imparted an appearance of delicious coolness and repose to the rooms; and while not one bright-hued painting was visible, the walls were hung with soft, gray, misty engravings of Landseer's pictures, framed in carved ebony and rosewood and oak.
The evening sun shed its last rays over a little town on the lake-shore, and its newly-painted tiles shone brightly in its light beams. While the ship descended through the many locks, we visited the neighbouring church of the village of Vretakloster, which contains the skeletons of several kings in beautifully-made metal coffins.
About the first of June they were released, came back to Millville, found their old shack burned down, and since then, the postmaster understood, had camped out in the woods, giving the town a wide berth in fact, only occasionally appearing, to buy a little flour, sugar or coffee, or, mostly, tobacco. Nobody had seen them for over a week nobody knew anything of a newly-painted red wagon.
And something like this it turned out. In ascending one of the narrow ladders leading from the berth-deck to the gun-deck, the Most Noble Marquis of Silva, in the act of elevating the Imperial coat-tails, so as to protect them from rubbing against the newly-painted combings of the hatchway, this noble marquis's sword, being an uncommonly long one, had caught between his legs, and tripped him head over heels down into the fore-passage.
I declared, with reason, that I had drunk too much already, and crept away to my bed, which happily was close at hand. For at least two days after that incident I smelt like a newly-painted lamp-post, but I have always felt grateful to the careless dog of a servant for not having served me up oxalic acid or vitriol in place of the turpentine.
Thus, the dark and worn stone walls have bright eyes in their newly-painted doors and windows. Over their doorsteps the fishermen's wives are quite fastidious, and you seldom see a mark on the ochre-coloured hearthstone with which the women love to brighten the worn stones. Even the scrapers are sleek with blacklead, and it is not easy to find a window without spotlessly clean curtains.
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