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They were, however, wanting either in skill or in fortune. And everything went against them after their antagonists had begun to employ Solicitor Nap. Who does not know the name of Solicitor Nap? At what alehouse is not his behaviour discussed? In what print-shop is not his picture seen? Yet how little truth has been said about him!
In the meantime his Excellency's portrait was sketched by an artist who hung upon his wheel, and in less than half an hour a lithographic likeness of the popular idol was worshipped in every print-shop in Hubbabub. As they drew nearer the Hall of Audience the crowd kept increasing, till at length the whole city seemed poured forth to meet him.
I must treat you to something what shall it be? Will you have some apples?" glancing at an old woman's stall; then, recollecting the print-shop window: "Sam," said he, "have you seen my picture by Sir Joshua Reynolds? Have you seen it, Sam? Have you got an engraving?"
The artist turned round during these remarks, and presented the original of a portrait which Marcus remembered to have seen dressing gown, hat, and all in a small print-shop window in the Sixth Avenue. Touching the face he might have had doubt, but there was no mistaking the pattern of the dressing gown and the amazing hat.
'It's too good of you, much too good. Because you are consoling yourself with what will never happen, and I know that, and yet I want to keep you. Don't blame me later, please. 'I'm going into the matter with my eyes open. Moreover the Queen can do no wrong. It isn't your selfishness that impresses me. It's your audacity in proposing to make use of me. 'Pooh! You're only Dick, and a print-shop.
One day during my Cambridge days it must have been in my first year before I knew Hatherleigh I saw in a print-shop window near the Strand an engraving of a girl that reminded me sharply of Penge and its dusky encounter. It was just a half length of a bare-shouldered, bare-breasted Oriental with arms akimbo, smiling faintly. I looked at it, went my way, then turned back and bought it.
Dareville had the assurance to address to her ladyship, apropos to something which she pretended to admire in Lady Clonbrony's costume a costume, which, excessively fashionable in each of its parts, was, altogether, so extraordinarily unbecoming, as to be fit for a print-shop. The perception of this, added to the effect of Mrs.
"What have you got there?" asked Turner, pointing with his stick at the carpet-bag. "A kitten?" "No no," replied Marvin, looking this way and that, to make sure that none could overhear. "A Nanteuil engraved from his own drawing, Jack a real Nanteuil. I have just been to a man I know the print-shop opposite the statue on the Quai Voltaire to have my own opinion verified. I was sure of it.
"It is a curious thing, is it not?" said he to Charles, "that they should have got that sketch up at a print-shop. You see it is the very same as your sister's drawing, that group of people and all." Charles looked again, and saw a beautiful print of his favourite landscape, the Bubbling Spring. It was the very same indeed, and the figures exactly copied from Isabella's drawing.
He said, that, as he was passing by the open window of the print-shop, he put his hand in to give part of a bun which he was eating to a little dog, who was sitting on the counter, near the window; and who looked thin and miserable, as if he was half-starved.
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