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He cunningly contrives to get a good artist's opinion on works of art, and debits it as his own a proceeding which makes Mr Snapley sometimes formidable in sculpture and in painting. As to other topics, on which educated men and accomplished women converse, he would fain be as profound as Locke with the one, and as gallant as Fontenelle with the other.
Did you ever meet Mr Snapley? Esquilias, dictumque petunt a Vimine collem JUV. * "I observed a gentleman in black," said our informant, "who seemed to fix me across the table-d'hôte, at dinner, in a way which soon showed me I was an object of interest to him. It was very odd! We were not in Austria! I could not have offended the police nor in Spain, the Inquisition.
He came back looking somewhat wild, and, walking in like a modern Prometheus, down he sits, and the new inspiration is presently bespoken for the fly page of virgin scrap-book. The precious morceau is concluded, and the improvisatore's name appears in a constellation of zig-zags. Did you never meet Mr Snapley?
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