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She intended to offer her remunerative work upon the Nursing News without saying anything about the real motive behind, trusting to gratitude to make her task the easier. The second was a clumsy-looking, overdressed woman whom Miss Lavery introduced as "Mrs. Phillips, a very dear friend of mine, who is going to be helpful to us all," adding in a hurried aside to Madge, "I simply had to bring her.
Whistler's "Carlyle" hangs in the Corporation Galleries, and it was the stylist, Lavery, who secured the tedious commission to commemorate Her Majesty's opening of the Glasgow Exhibition by the usual plethora of portraits. It would have made a more interesting picture had Mr.
She was shaken by the scene, and had hardly composed herself again to a weary grappling with business when the front door bell rang once more, and the butler appeared. "Mr. Lavery wishes to know, miss, if you will see him." The Vicar! Diana's heart sank. Must she? But some deep instinct some yearning interfered, and she bade him be admitted.
But one feels the lack of those others who have lately lifted Germany back among the greatest nations artistically: von Uhde, Liebermann, von Gebhardt, Klinger, Erler, and von Hofmann. In the same way the young and virile English group is not represented, though in this room is a passable portrait by the great John Lavery.
For the Nursing Times she wrote a series of condensed biographies, entitled "Ladies of the Lamp," commencing with Elizabeth Fry. They formed a record of good women who had battled for the weak and suffering, winning justice for even the uninteresting. Miss Lavery was delighted with them.
It wasn't like being preached to. It was somebody calling for help." Instinctively she held out her hand and he grasped it. Flossie came up at the same instant. She wanted to introduce him to Miss Lavery, who had just arrived. "Hullo!" she said. "Are you two concluding a bargain?" "Yes," said Joan. "We are founding the League of Youth. You've got to be in it.
He had passed through the swing doors; and they were standing on the pavement waiting for Joan's bus. "Why did we all like him?" asked Joan. "Even Miss Lavery. There's nothing extraordinary about him." "Oh yes there is," said Madge. "Love has lent him gilded armour. From his helmet waves her crest," she quoted. "Most men look fine in that costume. Pity they can't always wear it."
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