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These 'jumpers' ... and that confounded mixed stuff from seventeen ..." he trailed off, his eye glazing in the abstraction of some inner calculation, his long, nervous fingers reaching unconsciously toward the soiled memoranda left by Mason. "Well, I'll set you to work," he roused himself, when he perceived that the two were about to leave him.
The vessel is again placed on its supporting base in the sun, and kept turned and tilted until it has become well dried and set. Two and sometimes three days are required to bring a pot thus far toward completion, though during the same time there are several equally completed by each potter. There remains yet the burning and glazing. Samoki burns her pots in the morning before sunrise.
'The portrait will look better yet, he said. 'I always leave the final glazing till the picture is in the frame. After we had thoroughly examined the portrait, we turned to look at a large canvas upon an easel. Wilderspin had evidently been working upon it very lately. 'That's "Ruth and Boaz," don't you know? said Sleaford.
It is extraordinary how little is known of the art of painting; the art is forgotten. The old masters did perfectly in two days what we spend weeks fumbling at. In two days Rubens finished his grisaille, and the glazing was done with certainty, with skill, with ease in half an hour! He could get more depth of colour with a glaze than any one can to-day, however much paint is put on the canvas.
The young doctor Horton had brought in from a distant settlement shivered a little as he rose and stooped over the bed. Damer glanced at him out of glazing eyes, and made a faint gesture. "I have no use for you," he said. "It's Alton I want." The doctor crossed over to Horton, who sat in a corner. "If there is anything you want to ask him lose no time," he said.
Here an irrepressible moan of anguish broke through his heroic effort at equanimity; "It is NOT a phenomenon!".. and a gleam of obstinate self-assertion lit up his poor glazing eyes, "Nothing is phenonmenal! ... only I am not able...to explain. ... I have no time...no time...to analyze.. my very ... singular...sensations!"
Come on, Sam. Don't you have to go, too?" Sam nodded dazedly. "Well, good-bye, Penrod," said Maurice cordially. "I'm glad you like me all right. Come on, Sam." Penrod leaned against the doorpost and with fixed and glazing eyes watched the departure of his two visitors.
But Walter had no farther power to observe his plunderers: again his brain reeled; the dark trees, the grim shadows of human forms, swam before his glazing eye; and he sunk once more into a profound insensibility.
With so many willing hands at work, the little church was soon finished; and, at the time when the events we are describing occurred, there was nothing to be done to it except some trifling arrangements connected with the steeple, and the glazing of the windows. This latter piece of work was, in such a climate, of little importance.
Forests of spruce and lodgepole were dark with shadow. A beaver colony returned to its former haunts at the foot of Long's Peak and was working night and day. Its pond of still water was glazing over with clear ice. October came. The nights grew colder. The snow of early winter came to the high peaks, dusting their bare, bald crowns. "Fur ought to be getting prime now," the Parson said one day.
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