The leaden casket, Band 2Chatto & Windus, 1880 |
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Seite 94 - The Blessing of my later years Was with me when a boy : She gave me eyes, she gave me ears ; And humble cares, and delicate fears ; A heart, the fountain of sweet tears ; And love, and thought, and joy.
Seite 107 - However, the truth is, that it is vain to try to knit up the present with the past : each part of our lives has its own pleasures and hopes.
Seite 189 - ... strong feeling for heaviness." ' ' Well, take a pen and correct as you go along ; make him a stockbroker — that's disguise enough.' ' Oh, no, I'm afraid it is not.' 'But I can't have any very great alterations ! Read on.' Olive read on, but soon cried, ' I am sure it won't do to leave this ; every one will know that you are thinking of poor Aunt Mary : ' She contradicted her fellow-creatures as the only means at her disposal of keeping up a conversation. Perhaps, in her heart, she would have...
Seite 140 - Never perhaps in Morrison's life had he opened his eyes so wide as he did now. ' But you don't paint in water-colours ! ' cried he. 'No, but I am going to — the election is not till spring. There is plenty of time before it comes off; only, you must tell me what steps to take.' ' Send in three very good drawings, framed close.' ' Never mind about the frames ' ' No ; if you have never painted water-colours before, I do not think that the frames will be the great difficulty,' said Morrison, laughing...
Seite 142 - Paint all round if less won't satisfy you, but it will take you some time to learn your facts— a lifetime, I should say, for a very small group of them. It's not so easy as you seem to think, by a long way.' ' Well, I won't say it is easy, at any rate not before you ; but I'll be hanged if I can see how any one who has been trained to draw the figure, and has had to use his brains to invent figuresubjects, can find any difficulty in sitting down and painting a. landscape. What have you to do but...
Seite 144 - I don't remember what that glorious old fellow said on the subject,' replied Ambergreen. ' Tell me.' ' He says that if you throw a sponge filled with several different colours against a wall, you will find that the stain it makes will be a very fair landscape.' ' That sounds absurd, of course, to you, but I dare say there is a great deal of truth in it. However, I am going to set to work in the regular, lawful, and approved way, and we shall see how I succeed.
Seite 268 - ... becoming. She was scolding at the top of her voice, and loudly proclaiming that deeds must follow words, unless she was attended to at once. A meek-looking woman with a baby in her arms, and two children hanging on her skirts, was receiving the outpouring of her wrath. * It's a sin and a shame that any one who slaves away as Mr. Merrison does should be " tewed " in this way, with a nasty, mischievous, good-for-nothing little abominable tyke like your Tommy, and when he comes in I'll just tell...
Seite 209 - I do not wish to hear it,' said Olive firmly ; ' I do not want to be told anything, unless I may be allowed to consult Uncle Richard about it.' She was still adhering to her resolution to be straightforward ; this course was entirely in harmony with her own character, and it had the effect of thoroughly disconcerting her stepmother, who tried, however, to put a good face on the matter and said, ' Don't be so idiotic, Olive ! You get hold of a few fine phrases, and think you settle everything if you...
Seite 182 - You shall meet him ! — I beg your pardon, Olive, but do please remember that I am much older than you, and know much better what is right in such cases than you can possibly do. Let him come here as usual. He won't say anything which you will object to hear. He has promised me that he will not — he will come just as any other friend might do.