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"What have you been doing to my artistic ward?" "Nothing," replied Bobbie with unwonted meekness, and to prove it related the incidents of the touring-car, the supper at the Taverne Splendide, and the encounter with the paternal colorist. "That isn't Julien's father," said the sculptress. "He's only an adoptive father. But Julien adores him, as he ought to.
One of them is a tall, handsome, young English lady, Miss Durant, who is a sculptress, studying with Baron de Triqueti. She took me to his studio, and he immediately remarked that she ought to get me to sit. I said I would, "only my French lessons." "Oh," said he, smiling, "we will give you French lessons while you sit." So I go to-morrow morning.
He buys broken-winded hunters from the hunting set, decrepit ponies from the polo players, and stone griffins for the garden from the social sculptress. A couple of hundred here, a couple of thousand there, and he and his wife are dining out among the people who run things. Once he gets a foothold, the rest is by comparison easy. The bribes merely become bigger and more direct.
That's all I ask." "Do you think her so pretty?" inquired the sculptress disparagingly. "Pretty? She's the loveliest thing that " Catching his hostess's smile he broke off. "You'll admit it's a well-modeled face," he said professionally; "and and well, unusual." "Pooh! 'Dangerous' is the word. Remember it," warned the Bonnie Lassie.
I had no pretensions either as a painter or a sculptress, and I exhibited my works for the sake of selling them, as I wanted to buy two little lions, and had not money enough. I sold the pictures for what they were worth that is to say, at very modest prices. Lady H bought my group After the Storm.
On a day when the local philanthropy market was slack, and Miss Holland, seated in the Bonnie Lassie's front window, was maturing some new and benign outrage upon our sensibilities, she called out to the sculptress at work on a group: "There's a queer man making queer marks on your sidewalk." "That's Peter Quick Banta. He's a fellow artist."
If Archie had proposed it, she would have gone at once to a hotel with him and registered, but he prudently suggested the studio, where he hoped to find Cornelia Baxter. But the sculptress had gone away somewhere, and the big room was empty also hot and dusty. They sat down before the fireless stove and looked at each other. Adelle was very tired and on the verge of hysterical tears.
The character must not be allowed to get vague, but, with gleams of romance, must yet be kept homely and natural by little touches of his daily life. As for Alice, I see no necessity for her being anywise related to or connected with the old Hospitaller. As originally conceived, I think she may be an artist a sculptress whom Eldredge had known in Rome.
"You won't be ashamed of yourself," prophesied the other, "if you do just as I say, quickly and naturally." "Oh, naturally," retorted the girl in an indignant whimper. "I suppose you think that's natural. Anyway, he probably doesn't care about me at all that way." "Roberta," said the sculptress sternly, "did you see his portrait of you?" "Y-y-yes."
This work was marvellously effective, and a great future as a sculptress was foretold for the "divine Sara." At the Salon of 1878 she exhibited two portrait busts in bronze. This remarkable woman is a painter also, and exhibited a picture called "La jeune Fille et la Mort."
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