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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Why, you know, the Union Chapel, over in the village, is in a languishing condition, and the ladies have been talking all summer about doing something for it, getting up something a concert or theatricals or a dance or something and applying the proceeds to repainting and papering the visible church; it needs it dreadfully.
Rawdon, you will be acting first, and I can only say that I hope you will be confirmed." The frigate and her prize at once sailed for Gibraltar. On their arrival there, the captain took some pains by sending up larger yards, and by repainting the broad white streaks showing the portholes to restore the prize to its proper appearance as a ship of war.
He had blustered about the extravagance of a "crew," but the sums of money that went to the brightening, refitting, overhauling, repainting, and reballasting of the boat all absolutely uncalled-for made even Laura gasp, and would have maintained a dozen sailors an entire year. This same inconsistency prevailed also in other directions. In the matter of business Jadwin's economy was unimpeachable.
From all of which I argue that when they got rid of us here, the people who are working all this slipped quietly back to some cove or creek on the Scotch coast, did a stiff turn at repainting, and meant to be off to the other side of the world under new colours.
The artistic effect is further enhanced by the relief of exquisite flesh tones against the rich crimson drapery, and although the atmospheric glow has been sadly destroyed by abrasion and repainting, we may still feel something of the magic charm which Giorgione knew so well how to impart.
It was on the verge of some waste ground. But I had expected a more prosperous-looking place. It had a long row of white palings that lacked repainting. The house itself looked rather poverty-stricken. I had hurried over my breakfast at the station, then I had asked my way, and found it. I knocked once and again. That wife, whom I had never seen before, came slowly to the door.
There was a hidden dignity in his scowling as he shuffled about pondering the least ridiculous place for the picture. It is not fair to the picture to try repainting it in words, for words reduce it to a lithograph. It was a bit of a pine forest, through which there exuberantly rushed an unspoiled little mountain stream. Chromos and works of art may deal with kindred subjects.
You can easily imagine the worshipful agitation of Eighth Avenue whenever Del Delano honored it with a visit after his terpsichorean act in a historically great and vilely ventilated Broadway theatre. If the West Side could claim forty-two minutes out of his forty-two weeks' bookings every year, it was an occasion for bonfires and repainting of the Pump.
The profound knowledge and vigorous or fairy-like handling which made their primary reputation are now forever gone, leaving little behind them except the composition to sustain it in competition with modern work. As bad, however, as is this wanton injury, that of repainting is greater.
"Yes; but isn't it splendid of them to set off and come all that way, just because I asked them? By Jove, we must look sharp and get the place smartened up a bit." And sure enough the whole place was soon turned upside-down cartloads of sand coming in for the garden walks and the courtyard, and painters hard at work repainting the houses.
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