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The walls were covered with a loan collection of oil-paintings, water-colour drawings, and etchings English and French, but chiefly English. A very large proportion of the pictures were portraits of women done by a select group of very expensive painters in the highest vogue.
She was very small and slender, with quantities of soft dark hair and beautiful great dark eyes that looked like a frightened fawn's. I have heard my father describe her many times, and I have seen the water-colour sketch he made of her he was quite an amateur. Ahmed has it locked away somewhere. She nearly died when the baby was born, and she never recovered her strength.
I for one, though I have not profited by the advantages the girls have commanded, and I daresay have not their brains" she made the frank admission with womanly, motherly humility "though I could not to save my life make one of Rose's beautiful water-colour sketches, or read Greek and Latin like 'little May, or even talk to the point on every subject under the sun like Annie, still I should not be happy if I had to keep company with Wilkins the butcher's or Ord the baker's wife, and they would not be happy either.
On a table near the bed stood an empty spirit bottle, and at the head of the bed were two water-colour sketches pinned to the wall; one represented, as far as could be made out, a fat man with a guitar in his hand probably Nedopyuskin; the other portrayed a horseman galloping at full speed.... The horse was like those fabulous animals which are sketched by children on walls and fences; but the carefully washed-in dappling of the horse's grey coat, and the cartridge pocket on the rider's breast, the pointed toes of his boots, and the immense moustaches, left no room for doubt this sketch was meant to represent Panteley Eremyitch riding on Malek-Adel.
The doctor's sweet lady-like daughter held out her hand to the boy, who was staring about him at everything with wondering delight, till he caught sight of an admirably drawn water-colour portrait of the doctor, the work of Helen herself, duly framed and hung upon the wall. The boy burst into a hearty laugh, and turned to Helen, running to her now, and putting his hand in hers.
An exquisite miniature in water-colour of Liza at twelve years old had been sent nine years before to Stepan Trofimovitch from Petersburg by the Drozdovs. He had kept it hanging on his wall ever since. "Was I such a pretty child? Can that really have been my face?" She stood up, and with the portrait in her hand looked in the looking-glass.
It was his genius not to see these things to leave out the drawing is better than to fumble with it, and all his life he has done this; and though we may say that a water-colour with the drawing left out is a very slight thing, we cannot fail to perceive that these sketches, though less than sonnets or ballades, or even rondeaus or rondels at most they are triolets are akin to the masters, however distant the relationship.
"Bowie, bring these gentlemen some sherry!" cried Claude, turning over his portfolio. "Now then, my worthy friends, is that the sort of thing you want?" And he spread on the table a water-colour sketch of Grace. The two worthies gazed in silent delight, and then looked at each other, and then at Claude, and then at the picture. "Why, sir," said Willis; "I couldn't have believed it!
A boy of fifteen, he made a water-colour sketch of his family sitting round the table; and while a student at Yale he relieved his father, who was far from rich, of a part of his education by painting miniatures on ivory, and selling them to his companions at five dollars a-piece.
The two men exchanged a glance; it was tragic; not otherwise might two philosophers salute, as at the end of a laborious life each recognised that he was still a mystery to his disciples. Léon arose. "Art is Art," he repeated sadly. "It is not water-colour sketches, nor practising on a piano. It is a life to be lived." "And in the meantime people starve!" observed the woman of the house.
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