![]() ![]() The walls were of the usual dull red, relieved by plaster casts of arms and legs and hands and feet and Dante's mask, and Michael Angelo's altorilievo of Leda and the swan, and a centaur and Lapith from the Elgin marbles-on none of these had the dust as yet had time to settle. The big piano, a semi-grand by Broadwood, had arrived from England by the Little Quickness ( la Petite Vitesse, as the goods trains are called in France), and lay, freshly tuned, alongside the eastern wall on the wall opposite was a panoply of foils, masks, and boxing-gloves.Ī trapeze, a knotted rope, and two parallel cords, supporting each a ring, depended from a huge beam in the ceiling. Things were beginning to look shipshape at last. The big studio window was open at the top, and let in a pleasant breeze from the northwest. IT was a fine, sunny, showery day in April. TOUT VIENT À POINT, POUR QUI SAIT ATTENDRE! 'AH, POOR MAMMA! SHE WAS EVER SO MUCH PRETTIER THAN THAT!' 'OH, DON'T YOU REMEMBER SWEET ALICE, BEN BOLT?' ![]() I SUPPOSE YOU DO ALL THIS KIND OF THING FOR MERE AMUSEMENT, MR. PETIT ENFANT, J'AIMAIS D'UN AMOUR TENDRE. ![]() 'AH! THE BEAUTIFUL INTERMENT, MESSIEURS!'ĪUX NOUVELLES QUE J'APPORTE, VOS BEAUX YEUX VONT PLEURER!. Triste et gai, tour à tour!" ILLUSTRATIONS INTERNATIONAL BOOK AND PUBLISHING COMPANYĬopyright, 1894, 1899, by Harper & Brothers. ![]()
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