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The painter notices beauty, but he looks for it particularly in the profound characterisation of the types which he studies, and his pastels have the massiveness and the sombre style of bronze. He has also painted café-scenes, prostitutes and supers, with a mocking and sad energy; he has even amused himself with painting washerwomen, to translate the movements of the women of the people.
'Universal providers, you know. You must admit, they're rather splendid, General. But can she really have the courage to hire the same 'supers' every week? It isn't possible!" "Oh, but Cambremer is quite a good name; old, too," protested the General.
The guests seemed to belong to no universal social order, but to Francis, watching them almost eagerly, they all seemed to have something of the same expression, the same slight air of weariness, of restless and unsatisfied desires. "I can't believe that the place is real, or that these people we see are not supers," Margaret whispered.
"You will understand, of course," he said, "that this little entertainment is entirely for your amusement well stage-managed, perhaps, but my supers are not to be taken seriously. Since you are here, Baron, might I ask you to precede me a few steps to the tasting office?" "By all means," de Grost answered. "It is this way, I believe."
He had telegrams in his pocket from half a dozen squatters and supers offering him pens on any terms. He didn't give a blank whether he took them or no. He thought at first he had the telegrams on him but found that he had left them in the pocket of the overcoat aforesaid. He had learned butchering in a day. He was a bit of a scrapper himself and talked a lot about the ring.
Those who usually had business with the great Grubbs were of a different type altogether, some of them discarded valets or footmen, who came to gain half a crown or five shillings by offering information as to the doings of their late masters and mistresses, shabby "supers" from the theatres, who had secured the last bit of scandal concerning some celebrated stage or professional "beauty" sporting men and turf gamblers of the lowest class, unsuccessful dramatists and small verse writers these, with now and then a few "ladies" ladies of the bar-room, ballet, and demi-monde, were the sort, of persons who daily sought private converse with Grubbs and Beau Lovelace, with his massive head, fine muscular figure, keen eyes, and self-assertive mien, was quite a novel specimen of manhood for the wondering observation of the office-boy, who scrambled off his high chair with haste and something of respect as he said
And darkly on his dark mind loomed his new and bitter creed, 'There is no Christ. Martha met them on the doorstep, crying, hiccoughing, and enraged. 'Why, Martha! Edward looked at her in astonishment. It is usually the supers, and not the principals, that raise lamentation in the midst of tragedy 'why, Martha, have you lost someone dear to you? He knew all about that loss.
When Kedzie had saved two or three nations and kept the United States from war the millionaire would regret that she was, after all, only a boy and be overcome with rapture when she told him the truth. The three hundred supers would then serve as wedding-guests in the biggest church wedding ever pulled off. Kedzie liked this last touch immensely.
Being a playwright, he was known to nearly all the people, more or less, and got five supers and one carpenter to join him for a consideration. He then made other arrangements in the town, the nature of which will appear in due course. Meantime Suaby had presented his bill. One of the keepers got into the fly and took it back to the town. There, as Rolfe had anticipated, lurked Richard Bassett.
So for a full moon the waters rage, the noise of battle roars, till our suppressed fighting instincts have been deluded into repose and satisfaction, till the champing war-horses have been quieted by being allowed to snort and cry "Ha! ha!" to see the glitter of stage spears, and to hear the noise of the supers and the shouting. This is the real end masked beneath all those interminable phrases.
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