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...l of cleverness, and sometimes with perfect reason, the fools, his brother painters. As it was with the utmost difficulty that he could keep himself, ... ... of Newman Street, Gerrard Street, and the Artists’ quarter: and the young painters, when they came to take their gin-and-water with their lazy, disso... ...d his hands bound in a web of green silk, which she was unwinding. In this romantic position Osborne and Amelia found the in- teresting pair, when the... ...Fancy our late monarch George III when he heard of the revolt of the North American colonies: fancy brazen Goliath when little David stepped forward a... ...presents of knives, pencil-cases, gold seals, toffee, Little Warblers, and romantic books, with large coloured pictures of knights and robbers, in man... ... now in hand. We might have treated this subject in the genteel, or in the romantic, or in the facetious manner. Suppose we had laid the scene in Gros... ...ter of an opera- girl. She had danced herself. She had been a model to the painters. She was brought up as became her mother’s daugh- ter. She drank g...

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...on the dark dismantled simplified scene, in the deep silence that rests on American towns during the hot season—there was now and then a far cry or a ... ...uldn’t wait long, once she was there: they would have it right over at the American consul’s. Mrs. Allen had said it would perhaps be better still to ... ...on “hooking on” was always something gained. Was it because something of a romantic or pathetic interest usually attaches to a good creature who has b... ...e forgotten; but she immediately pro- nounced his, availing herself of the American girl’s dis- cretion to “present” him to her mother. “Well, you mig... ...dn’t help it, poor girl; nature had made her conspicuous—important, as the painters say. She paid for it by the corresponding exposure, the danger tha...

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...n the doorway. Tall, large-eyed, draped in purple shawls, Mrs. Ambrose was romantic and beautiful; not perhaps sym- pathetic, for her eyes looked stra... ... out in the East, there was cholera in Russia, and he was heard of, not so romantically, in Lisbon. They had been through France; he had stopped at ma... ...might think he was a successful stock- broker, and not one of the greatest painters of the age. That’s what I like.” “There are a great many successfu... ...ave her donkey a sharp cut with a switch and started forward. The full and romantic career of Evelyn Murgatroyd is best hit off by her own words, “Cal... ...“which shall it be?” “Balzac,” said Rachel, “or have you the Speech on the American Revolution, Uncle Ridley?” “The Speech on the American Revolution?... ... she darted and ejaculated he gave Rachel a sketch of the history of South American art. He would deal with one of his wife’s exclamations, and then r... ...essness to think or to look. She was turning over the slippery pages of an American magazine, when the hall door swung, a wedge of light fell upon the...

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...arked that they were all by one hand. He was laughed at, and the different painters were named, as recognized by their style. “Not at all,” said the M... ...He was the son of M. de Saint-Aignan, who with honour and valour was truly romantic in gallantry, in belles-lettres, and in arms. He was Captain of th... ...whose permanent reign did not last less than thirty-two years? Born in the American islands, where her father, perhaps a gentleman, had gone to seek h... ...n learning at the army the death of Ma- dame la Duchesse de Berry. All his romantic notions of am- bition being overturned, he was more than once on t...

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...APTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM MEMO...

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...CIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COM- MUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO “AN IN... ... coffee was always exhausted before I could elbow my way to the counter. Our American sunrise had ushered in a noble summer’s day. There was not a clo... ...es of the States and T erritories themselves form a chorus of sweet and most romantic vocables: Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, Dakota, Iowa, Wyomin... ...w, I consulted him upon a point of etiquette: if one should offer to tip the American waiter? Certainly not, he told me. Never. It would not do. They ... ...but I did not wish to go to bed. And this, it appeared, was impossible in an American hotel. It was, of course, some inane misunderstanding, and spran... ...0.] 52 Across the Plains CHAPTER III FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNI- TIES OF PAINTERS I THE CHARM OF FONTAINEBLEAU is a thing apart. It is a place tha... ...is – comes the great fact that it is already colonised. The institution of a painters’ colony is a work of time and tact. The population must be conqu... ...the manner of the Swiss Family Robinson; thither he mounted at night, by the romantic aid of a rope ladder; and if dirt be any proof of sincerity, the... ...hat with the impulse of increasing health and the continual provo- cation of romantic scenes, he became tormented with the desire to work. He enjoyed ...

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...e started his team again with great cracks of his long whip, turned to the painters still at work upon the sign and declared with some defiance: “Sieb... ...hese things. They did not belong to his world. In the picture of that huge romantic West that he saw in his imagination, these dissensions made the on... ...d an accordion. These Spanish-Mexicans, decayed, picturesque, vicious, and romantic, never failed to interest Presley. A few of them still remained in... ...reat valley that stretched in all directions around it—shut off, discreet, romantic, a garden of dreams, of en- chantments, of illusions. Outside ther... ...o men were busy hanging the great sliding door at the south end, while the painters—come down from Bonneville early that morning—were engaged in adjus... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ... State and city are, after all, only a little more addle-headed than other Americans.” It was his favourite topic. Sure of the interest of his hearers...

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...consecrated as the Holy Land of the capitalist age, just as Italy, for its painters’ sakes, is the Holy Land of the early unvulgarized Renascence; Fra... ...much a first essay in political philosophy as Die Feen is a first essay in romantic opera. The attempt to recover its spirit twenty years later, when ... ...48 are taught neither by the education nor the experience of En- glish and American gentlemen-amateurs, who are almost al- ways political mugwumps, an... ...at the poor dwarf is repulsive to their sense of physical beauty and their romantic conception of heroism, that he is ugly and awkward, greedy and rid... ...y is a cave, in which he hides from the light like the eyeless fish of the American caverns. Before the cur- tain rises the music already tells us tha... ...or all the principals in a row, vengeful conjura- tions for trios of them, romantic death song for the tenor: in short, all manner of operatic convent...

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...down later into the types of beauty imagined by the previous generation of painters. They took the only part of our society in which there was leisure... ...l sense and reason. In European Courts there was vindictive illegality: in American Courts there was raving lunacy. It is not for me to chronicle the ... ...t is not for me to chronicle the extravagances of an Ally: let some candid American do that. I can only say that to us sitting in our gardens in Engla... ...or ourselves alive next morning, the newspaper ac- counts of the sentences American Courts were passing on young girls and old men alike for the expre... ...staring at her in wide-eyed amazement]. Bless you, dear Mrs Hushabye, what romantic ideas of business you have! Poor dear Mangan isn’t a bit like that...

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...ll we eager him to eat of it himself. The same spirit inspired Miss Bird’s American missionaries, who had come thousands of miles to change the faith ... ... their ignorance of the religions they were trying to supplant. I quote an American in this connection without scruple. Uncle Sam is better than John ... ...the largest, to a clique of states; and the whole scope and atmosphere not American, but merely Yankee. I will go far beyond him in reprobating the as... ...nd body, more active, fonder of eat- ing, endowed with a lesser and a less romantic sense of life and of the future, and more immersed in present circ... ...im dangling about the town from one old book-shop to another, and scraping romantic acquaintance with every dog that passed. His talk, compounded of s... ...coming forth into the sunshine, in a beautiful green, gardened corner of a romantic city; and as I sat and smoked, the music moving in my blood, I see... ...ng to write about the inn at Burford, or to describe scenery with the word-painters; it is quite another to seize on the heart of the suggestion and m...

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...F THE PHYSICIAN AND THE SARATOGA TRUNK MR. SILAS Q. SCUDDAMORE was a young American of a simple and harmless disposition, which was the more to his cr... ...n of title. Madame Zephyrine, probably in the hope of enchanting the young American, used to flaunt by him on the stairs with a civil inclination, a w... ...en he was safely alone with a few males. The room on the other side of the American’s – for there were three rooms on a floor in the hotel – was tenan... ...s pursuits, Harry was unfitted alike by nature and training. He could sing romantic ditties, and accompany himself with discretion on the piano; he wa... ... mond. He was annoyed, moreover, to find the information scattered amongst romantic story-telling, instead of soberly set forth after the manner of a ... ...hy of himself. Indeed his play with that instrument was as good as a whole romantic drama; it was so dashing, so florid, and so cavalier. Elvira, on t... ...th a chuckle, “ten to one we get as good a welcome as we want.” “I thought painters were principally poor,” said Stubbs. “Ah!” cried Leon, “you do not...

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...ers, his hands be hind him. He beheld the scene with the eyes of the many painters who have sought by means of the most charming garden in Paris to e... ... glittered with a kindly but ironic good humour. Now passed a guard in the romantic cloak of a brigand in comic opera and a peaked cap like that of an... ...ed Susie Boyd, whose common sense prevented her from pay ing much heed to romantic notions of false delicacy. ‘My dear, you’d take his money without ... ...ock, and whether a high heeled pointed shoe commends itself or not to the painters in the quarter, it’s the only thing in which a woman’s foot looks ... ...is desire; it refreshed her vastly after the extreme weakness of the young painters with whom of late she had mostly consorted. But those quick dark e... ...anged in a horse shoe, which was reserved for a small party of English or American painters and a few Frenchmen with their wives. At least, they were... ...gantly dressed. His manner and his conversation had the flamboyance of the romantic thirties. He talked in flowing periods with an air of finality, an... ...s, who painted still life with a certain amount of skill, and Clayson, the American sculptor. Raggles stood for rank and fashion at the Chien Noir. He... ...t out with the tall Jagson, who smarted still under Haddo’s insolence. The American sculptor paid his bill si lently. When he was at the door, Haddo ...