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Updated: June 24, 2025
From the mantelshelf the lamp emitted its feeble rays, dimly lighting the lonely chamber, and holding, as with uncertain hand, the shadows which crowded and cowered in the distant corners and recesses of the room, and throwing into Rembrandtesque the pallid face of the wakeful mother, and the flushed and fevered face of the slumbering child.
Greyne's majestic features, made them look Rembrandtesque. Her large, oxlike eyes were fixed and thoughtful. After a pause, she said: "Eustace, I shall have to send you upon a mission." "A mission, Eugenia!" said Mr. Greyne in great surprise. "A mission of the utmost importance, the utmost delicacy." "Has it anything to do with Romeike & Curtice?" "No." "Will it take me far?" "That is my trouble.
That suffices: it gives a key to the situation. I can now conjure up the gaunt and sombre houses of this thick-clustering stronghold; the Rembrandtesque shadows, the streets devoid of men, the picture of some martial hero in a cavern-like recess where I sought shelter from the heat, a black crucifix planted in the soil below the entrance of the village my picture of Saracinesca is complete, in outline.
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