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"Well, it's beautiful, sir," remarked Bullen cordially; "painted like the life, you may say. But isn't it just a little smudgy, sir?" "That's the beauty of it, Bullen. It's impressionism, you Philistine! a sort of modified impressionism, you know, to suit the hangers. 'Gad, Bullen, you ought to be a hanger yourself!
Suddenly on raising her eyes she noticed the old Hotel Boncoeur in front of her. After being an all-night cafe, which the police had closed down, the little house was now abandoned; the shutters were covered with posters, the lantern was broken, and the whole building was rotting and crumbling away from top to bottom, with its smudgy claret-colored paint, quite moldy.
It was not altogether a pleasant ceremony the smell of burning wool is not incense to one's nostrils; and the tinker heaved a deep sigh of relief as the last flare died down into a heap of black, smudgy embers. "That Green County sheriff will have a long way to go now if he's still looking for a girl in a brown suit," he chuckled. Sleep laid the O'Connell temper.
One bitter winter's day in 1891 I went to Wemyss Reid to tell him, if he would hear me, that I had in my mind a series of short stories of Australia and the South Seas, and to ask him if he could give them a place in 'The Speaker'. It was a Friday afternoon, and as I went into the smudgy little office I saw a gentleman with a small brown bag emerging from another room.
Nan never liked people to be dull and smudgy with disorderly moods. She kept a firm hand on her own emotions and perhaps she could not remember a time when they had got away from her under other eyes. Aunt Anne was partly responsible for that, and partly the proud shyness of her type. "No, Rookie," she said, "we won't fight. Not here, anyway. Not in your house."
He is a darling, Ronnie, but he isn't you! "Come back soon, to your more than ever loving wife, "Yes, the smudgy places are tears, but only because I am rather weak, and so happy." Crossing the first page came a short postscript, in firmer hand-writing: "After all I am sending this to Leipzig. I daren't not tell you before you arrive. I sometimes feel as if I had done something wrong!
Covered with dirt, unkempt, dressed in what seemed to be cast-off fragments of all the uniforms under the sun, the two figures stood looking around with broad grins, on their pale and smudgy faces. A bloody bandage half hid the face of one of them, the other nursed a hand bundled in rough, soiled cloths. Colonel Bright tried to speak. Words failed him.
So we set off into the wide snow-clad world, hand in hand, our hearts big with expectation, complacently confident that by a few smudgy traces in the snow we were in a fair way to capture a half-grown specimen of a fabulous beast. We ran the monster across the paddock and along the hedge of the next field, and then he took to the road like any tame civilized tax-payer.
Why, Pat, we have been making all kinds of locks to keep ourselves shut away from freedom and the things we want. Some day we would want to get out and we could not. I am going to be free, Pat not smudgy." Patricia paused in the act of getting into bed and remarked demurely: "My God! Out of the mouths of babes and pet lambs Come, child, shut your eyes. You make me crawl."
He rubs his beastly old thumb over my rottenest charcoal sketch, and it's a masterpiece." Robert, lying outstretched at Francey's feet, wondered at them at their talk of genius in connection with a revue star and a smudgy, underpaid studio hack, more still at their reverence for a God in Whom they certainly did not believe.
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