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Updated: May 29, 2025
Standing in the midst, propped between a basin and a cup, was the unframed photograph of a woman. This the man removed. Holding it loosely between his finger and thumb, still talking to his wife, he returned with it to his old position on the hearth. "I have not set foot in this room since for a year," he said. "I thought I would leave everything till you came. Do just as you like."
Carstairs had been standing all this time with an unframed picture in one hand, and a dust brush in the other, and her husband had been sitting on the rolled-up Turkish rug and trying not to look at her. "I'd like to do it very well," he said, simply. "Well, that's good," replied the railroad king, heartily.
The wallpaper was old and discoloured; a few almanacs and unframed prints were fixed to the walls, and on the mantelshelf were some cracked and worthless vases and ornaments. At one time they had possessed a clock and an overmantel and some framed pictures, but they had all been sold to obtain money to buy food.
The furnishings were few and of romantic severity; broad armchairs with seats and backs of leather studded with nails; oak tables with twisted legs; dark chests with iron locks showing against upholstery of moth-eaten green cloth. The yellowish-white walls were only visible, as a sort of grill-work, between rows of canvases, many of them unframed.
"What is the painter's name?" I asked. Enrico could not remember, but Mona Lisa said his name was Signore Hopsmithiziano, or something like that. There were several little plaster images on the walls, and through the open door that led to the adjoining room I saw a sort of an improvised shrine, with various little votive offerings grouped about an unframed canvas.
A Skye terrier, painted, it is supposed, by himself; not to recite unframed prints of various celebrities of the ballet, in accustomed attitudes, with the Reverend Paul Bloxham blessing some children though from the gesture and the expression of the juveniles it might seem cuffing them on the inauguration of the Sunday school at Kilmurry Macmacmahon.
They were unframed, but they were mostly copies of great pictures, and the effect was rather imposing in contrast to the shabby furniture and the otherwise homely fittings. "Yes, I've enough for that kind of thing," was his host's reply. But the tone was reserved, and Sweetwater did not presume again along this line.
Pictures filled every inch of wall, stood propped against the wonderful old furniture, were even stretched unframed across the ceilings. The ugly little thick-lipped man had surrounded himself with the beauty of every age, brought from every land.
Then suddenly he disengaged himself, rose feebly, went to the mantelpiece, lit another candle, and brought it, holding it towards something on a chair beckoning to her. She went to him perceived the unframed portrait and cried out. 'Phoebe sent it me just now, he said, almost in a whisper 'without a word without a single word. It was left here by a boy with no letter no address.
Mrs. Gerome drew from a corner of the rear room an easel containing a finished but unframed picture; and, gathering up the lace curtain drooping before the arch, she held the folds aside, to allow the light to fall full on the canvas. "Before you examine it, recall the description that suggested it." "I am sorry to say that my recollection of the passage is exceedingly vague and unsatisfactory.
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