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I'll take care of you." "It's a pity you were not here a few minutes ago. I have just bought a picture. You might have put the thing through for me." "Bought a picture?" said Mr. Tristram, looking vaguely round at the walls. "Why, do they sell them?" "I mean a copy." "Oh, I see. These," said Mr. Tristram, nodding at the Titians and Vandykes, "these, I suppose, are originals."
The mortgages were all paid off, so that, except for the departure of the two Vandykes and the silver, they were as well off as they had been before the Dolciquita had acted the locust. It was Leonora's great achievement. She laid the figures before Edward, who maintained an unbroken silence. "I propose," she said, "that you should resign from the Army and that we should go back to Branshaw.
By the author of Moral Tales and Practical Education. Feb. 16. I hope my dearest aunt will not disdain the work of my little bungling hands. The vandykes of this apron are such as Vandyke would scorn; poor little pitiful things they be! and will be in rags in a fortnight no doubt.
The room, with its carved and gilt cedar-wood panels, its Vandykes, its tall windows opening on the park, the autumn sun flooding the gold and purple fruit on the table, and sparkling on the glass and silver, the figures of his aunt and Lady Winterbourne, the moving servants, and dominant of it all, interpreting it all for him anew, the dark, lithe creature beside his grandfather, so quick, sensitive, extravagant, so much a woman, yet, to his lover's sense, so utterly unlike any other woman he had ever seen every detail of it was charged to him with a thousand new meanings, now oppressive, now delightful.
On the top story they were even boarded up, giving to that portion of the house a blank and desolate air. The grounds were separated from the street by a brick wall in our direction; the line of separation was marked by a high iron fence, in which I saw a gate. The Vandykes, whom I had questioned on the matter, were very short in their replies. But I learned this much.
That I might have time to think, and that I might be saved, if but for one day, contact with one it was almost my duty to hate, I came back to him with the plea that I might spend the day with the Vandykes instead of accompanying him down town as usual. I think he was glad of the freedom my absence offered him, for he gave me the permission I asked, and in ten minutes I was in my old home. Mrs.
During this exchange of words the two speakers had drifted unconsciously toward one of the benches. Mrs. Quentin glanced about her: a custodian who had been hovering in the doorway sauntered into the adjoining gallery, and they remained alone among the silvery Vandykes and flushed bituminous Halses. Mrs. Quentin sank down on the bench and reached a hand to the girl. "Sit by me," she said.
Shuddering, for I felt something uncanny in the situation, but speaking up, notwithstanding, with the round and vibrating tones I had inherited from my mother, I answered, with the necessary simplicity: "I am Delight Hunter, a country girl, sir, visiting the Vandykes." A flash that was certainly one of pleasure lighted up his face with a brilliance fatal to my poor, quivering girl's heart.
In time, he knew exactly the places where the great Rembrandts, Vandykes, Rubens, Raphaels, Tintorettos, or Frans Hals hung; he knew whether this masterpiece or that was in Vienna, in Paris, in Venice, or Munich, or Rome. He knew stories of splendid crown jewels, of old armor, of ancient crafts, and of Roman relics dug up from beneath the foundations of old German cities.
'You have not seen Allonby, said Laura. 'There are such Vandykes, and among them, such a King Charles! 'Is not that the picture, said Charles, 'before which Amy 'O don't, Charlie! 'Was found dissolved in tears? 'I could not help it, murmured Amy, blushing crimson. 'There is all Charles's fate in his face, said Philip, 'earnest, melancholy, beautiful!
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