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I was afraid Clayton would hear me, but I found myself outside at last, and in another minute I was in the deserted drawing-room. Alas! Eric was not there: only his paint-pot and brush lay on the balcony outside. Surely he could not have escaped me in these few minutes; he must be in one of the other rooms. At the top of the stairs I encountered a young workman, and began questioning him at once.
April 29, Sunday. Woke up with a fearful headache and strong symptoms of a cold. Carrie, with a perversity which is just like her, said it was "painter's colic," and was the result of my having spent the last few days with my nose over a paint-pot. I told her firmly that I knew a great deal better what was the matter with me than she did.
As if by magic-tents, huts, dumps, guns began, as it were, to sink into the scenery. The magicians were men skilled in the use of brush and paint-pot, and several leading figures in the world of art lent their services to the military authorities as directors of this campaign of concealment.
'No, says Big Bob, 'less get out the paint-pot and paint him a sky blue all over from head to heel, and then heave him over! 'Good, that 's it. Go for the paint, Jimmy. When the paint come, and Bob took the brush and was just going to begin, the others laughing and rubbing their hands, I begun to cry, and that sort of worked on Davy, and he says ''Vast there! He 's nothing but a cub.
Bud and Aleck, who had ridden uncomplainingly from dawn to dark, looking for Johnny's remains, straightway pulled him, paint-pot and all, from the stepladder and began to maul him affectionately and call him various names to hide their joy and relief. Which Johnny accepted philosophically and with less gratitude than he should have shown. "What yo' all doin', up there?"
She took the paint-pot, and stood looking at the brush as it moved up and down in his hand. 'I hope I shall not sprinkle your fingers, he observed as he dipped. 'O, that would not matter! You do it very well. 'I am glad to hear that you think so. 'But perhaps not quite so much art is demanded to paint a summer-house as to paint a picture?
It has changed into a veritable cloth of gold in early September, and in late October has flamed into scarlet against the gray roof, like a blaze that quivers athwart a stormy sky. It has been the joy of my life and the inspiration of my dreams, but it had to come down before the paint-pot!
In some mysterious way the agent seemed to know every time he brought out the paint-pot, and he was no longer the pleasant-voiced individual who drove the calico ponies. As he stepped out into the yard next morning, that abominable, sickening, scrawling advertisement was the first thing that claimed his glance it blotted out the beauty of the morning. Mrs.
Mike seemed unable to remove his eyes from the boot. "How on earth did By Jove! I remember now. I kicked up against something in the dark when I was putting my bicycle back that night. It must have been the paint-pot." "Then you were out that night?" "Rather. That's what makes it so jolly awkward. It's too long to tell you now " "Your stories are never too long for me," said Psmith. "Say on!"
"At my father-in-law's, if I ask for it." "IF you ask for it. But you won't, Tess; I know you; you'll never ask for it you'll starve first!" With these words he rode off. Just at the corner of the street he met the man with the paint-pot, who asked him if he had deserted the brethren. "You go to the devil!" said d'Urberville.
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