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And finally, there is the vigorous and most interesting realistic school of our own, in modern times, mainly known to the public by Holman Hunt's picture of the Light of the World, though, I believe, deriving its first origin from the genius of the painter to whom you owe also the revival of interest, first here in Oxford, and then universally, in the cycle of early English legend, Dante Rossetti.
He therefore resents the presence of all strangers, and has no mental faculty for distinguishing between strangers, as such, and actual intruders whose presence is essentially undesirable." Helen May gave a little, half-hysterical laugh, and Holman Sommers looked at her keenly, as a doctor sometimes looks at a patient. "I am intensely sorry that my coming frightened you," he said gently.
'Yes, the landlord said, 'the Hope Farm was in Heathbridge proper, and the owner's name was Holman, and he was an Independent minister, and, as far as the landlord could tell, his wife's Christian name was Phillis, anyhow her maiden name was Green. 'Relations of yours? asked Mr Holdsworth. 'No, sir only my mother's second-cousins. Yes, I suppose they are relations.
The Ingres Museum contains, I should say, more works from the hand of a single master than were ever before collected under the same roof. Upwards of a thousand sketches, many of great power and beauty, are here, besides several portraits and one masterpiece, the Christ in the Temple, brilliant as a canvas of Holman Hunt, although the work of an octogenarian.
I was not attending to what was not meant for me to hear, till I caught the name of Phillis Holman. And then I listened; where was the harm? 'I never saw any one so changed! 'I asked Mrs Holman, quoth another, "Is Phillis well?" and she just said she had been having a cold which had pulled her down; she did not seem to think anything of it.
Since he had turned back, far out on the desert, and braved the storm to inspect the Paymaster Mine, Wiley Holman had met nothing but disaster; but as he lay on the ground with one leg full of buckshot he blamed it all on the Widow.
A prick from Kaipi's knife blade would not make him budge an inch, and we clustered together and racked our brains to find the solution. "P'raps we're up against something," whispered Holman, "Feel if there's anything in front, Verslun." I walked forward a pace and groped in the blackness. My fingers touched solid rock. It hemmed us in on all sides.
One's good name is dear to every one, and Mrs. Selvig felt that what had just taken place was a blow to the house. It was now nearly dark in the tap-room. Holman's dark figure had been moved on to the stretcher, which stood on the floor ready to be lifted, and a message had been sent to Mrs. Holman.
'I must go I ought to have been off before now. 'Here, then, Phillis, take the keys. She gave her daughter some whispered directions, and Phillis left the room. 'She is my cousin, is she not? I asked. I knew she was, but somehow I wanted to talk of her, and did not know how to begin. 'Yes Phillis Holman. She is our only child now.
But even so it did not require speech to tell him that Elfigo Apodaca had never before met Helen May Stevenson, and that Holman Sommers was not overeager to introduce him to her. Starr, watching every movement of the three when they came together, frowned with puzzlement. Why had they been strangers until just now?
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