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The money must be raised. Merton looked resigned. 'I have nothing to sell, said Logan, 'but an entire set of clubs by Philp. Guaranteed unique, and in exquisite condition. 'You must part with them, said Merton. 'We are like Palissy the potter, feeding his furnace with the drawing-room furniture. 'But how about the recruiting? Logan asked.

In the year 1538 Palissy married, and a year later came the event which influenced more than any other the course of his future life.

His misery was of an intensity and kind with that of Palissy, in these struggles with an adverse fate. 'Don't mind it, pray don't! said Lady Constantine. 'It is dreadfully unfortunate! You have my whole sympathy. Can it be mended? 'Mended, no, no! 'Cannot you do with your present one a little longer? 'It is altogether inferior, cheap, and bad! 'I'll get you another, yes, indeed, I will!

Add to such an ensemble a vagrant multitude of rose, honeysuckle, clematis, and wistaria vines, all blooming in full rivalry of perfume and color; insert in some of the corners and beneath some of the older casements archaic bits of sculpture strange barbaric features with beards of Assyrian correctness and forms clad in the rigid draperies of the early Jumieges period of the sculptor's art; lance above the roof ridges the quaint polychrome finials of the earlier Palissy models; and crowd the rough cobble-paved courtyard with a rare and distinguished assemblage of flamingoes, peacocks, herons, cockatoos swinging from gabled windows, and game-cocks that strut about in company with pink doves and you have the famous inn of Guillaume le Conquerant!

Especially in the Convivium religiosum Erasmus has elaborately pictured his dream, and it would be worth while to compare it, on the one hand with Thélème, and on the other with the fantastic design of a pleasure garden which Bernard Palissy describes.

Whether the father of Palissy was a glass-maker or not for nothing is quite certain about the boy's early years Bernard must of course have had many companions among the children of the forest workers, and as he went through the world with his eyes always open, he soon learnt a great deal of all that had to be done in order to turn out the bits of glass that blazed like jewels when the sun shone through them.

Persons were found willing to buy the articles at a low price, notwithstanding the injury they had sustained; but Palissy would not sell them, considering that to have done so would be to "decry and abate his honour;" and so he broke in pieces the entire batch.

In copying or inventing patterns for painted windows, he had acquired a knowledge of geometry and considerable skill in the use of a rule and compass. His love of knowledge for its own sake made him follow up the study of geometry, as far as he could pursue it, and hence his skill as a surveyor. At this time young Palissy had no other object in life than to learn.

He was condemned to be burnt; but a powerful noble, the Constable de Montmorency, interposed to save his life not because he had any special regard for Palissy or his religion, but because no other artist could be found capable of executing the enamelled pavement for his magnificent chateau then in course of erection at Ecouen, about four leagues from Paris.

The lid of the soup-tureen drew a momentary glance from Genestas; he noticed that it was surmounted by a group of vegetables in high relief, skilfully colored after the manner of Bernard Palissy, the celebrated sixteenth century craftsman. There was no lack of character about the group of men thus assembled.

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