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With timid and shrinking steps, she came in front of the picture, and gazed at it in detail long and attentively. Never before did she know how fond she was of art. "It's beautiful," she said, after a pause; "I like it immensely. That moss is so soft, and the ferns are so delicate. And how lovely that patch of rich golden light is on Sardanapalus's shoulder."
"Elegant and charming follies, very well, so as to ruin yourself, as they say, by your Sardanapalus's magnificence I admit that; but to go and bury yourself in such a hole of a court as Gerolstein! Come, now, this is folly, and you are too sensible to do a stupid thing."
The shining Bull's Eye of the Court was gone, or it would have been the mark for a hurricane of national bullets. It had never been a good eye to see with had long had the mote in it of Lucifer's pride, Sardanapalus's luxury, and a mole's blindness but it had dropped out and was gone.
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