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He was also a good geologist and painted well in water-colours, and proved himself to be a capable lieutenant to the leader of the party. The Indian government sent the expedition a quantity of ammunition and surveying instruments. The party started from Zanzibar for the interior in October, 1860. At Usugara they were detained by the illness of Captain Grant and some of the Hottentot retainers.
It is then used like water in water-colour work, but is called 'tempera' or 'distemper. The effect of the egg is to produce an easy flow of the colour with so little liquid that the paint does not run on the surface, as it easily does in ordinary water-colours. The effect of the yellow yolk of the egg upon the tints is insignificant, unless too much be used.
That M. Lhote does not want for sensibility is shown by his sketches and water-colours, that his intellect is sharp enough is proved by his writings; but the devitalized rectitude of his more ambitious pieces shows how appallingly difficult it is to bring intellect to bear on sensibility without crushing it. The failure of M. Lhote is the measure of M. Friesz's achievement.
The first day, when only the boys were ill, there sat the girl, dabbling with her water-colours, and her petticoats reaching half across the room, looking like a milliner's doll, and neither she nor her poor mother dreaming of her doing a useful matter. 'Who is spiteful now, papa? That's all envy at not having such an accomplished daughter.
Dr. Beddersley gazed hard at them. "Give me an hour or two," he said "and a box of water-colours. I think by that time putting two and two together I can eliminate the false and build up for you a tolerably correct idea of what the actual man himself looks like."
Now Vera was not accomplished; she neither sang, nor played, nor painted in water-colours; but she had once learnt to play the organ a little a very little. So she professed herself willing to undertake the office of organ-player for once, that is to say, if she found she could do it pretty well, only she must go into church and try all the chants over.
He must dance and ride admirably; he ought to shoot; he may sing and paint in water-colours, or botanise a little, and the faintest aroma of the most volatile literature will do him no harm; but he cannot be allowed preferences. If he has a weakness for very pronounced collars and shirt-cuffs in mufti, it may be connived at, provided he be honestly nothing else but the man in collars and cuffs.
The shock of his fall appeared to have had the desirable effect of restoring Gerald to something approaching intelligence. He picked himself up from the remains of a set of water-colours, gazing at Sally with growing disapproval. "No sympathy," he said austerely. "I can't help it," cried Sally. "It's too funny." "Not funny," corrected Gerald, his brain beginning to cloud once more.
"Oh, nothing. . . . There was a visitor here last summer I forget her name, but she used to go about making water-colours in a mushroom hat you might have bought for sixpence quite a simple good creature: and one day, drinking tea at the Minister's, she raised quite a laugh by being so much concerned over your health.
She made a dozen sketches in water-colours after her conventual pattern; but sentimentally, as one may say, she was for ever sketching with a freer hand. Old Madame de Mauves had nothing severe but her nose, and she seemed to Euphemia what indeed she had every claim to pass for the very image and pattern of an "historical character."
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