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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... THE CORNHILL MAGAZINE. NOVEMBER, 1881. 6rapt from a &Irorn. By JAMES PAYN. CHAPTER XLV. The Sitting. SO assiduously did Miss Burt perform her duties as chaperon that through-out the drawing lesson she never left tutor and pupil to themselves, and Ella had consequently no opportunity of giving Mr. Felspar any informa-tion concerning his High-ness. All that he knew about him, save from village rumour, he had gathered from a few words dropped by Miss Burt, which we may be sure were not very ex-planatory. It was, therefore, with some euriosity that the painter received presently a summons to his new patron's presence. Patron, by the way, was a word that Mr. Felspar especially disliked, from a certain personal pride rather than from that reverence for their art which some artiste genuinely entertain and which more pretend to; he always Vol. Xliv.--No. 263. 25 eschewed it; nay, he was even in the habit of reversing matters and calling his patrons clients. Indeed, except so far as professional skill was concerned, his Highness could hardly have made a worse choice of a painter to hand down his twenty times transmitted features to posterity than in the present case; which was hard upon him, since his object in employing him was not wholly a selfish one. It had, it is true, long been on his mind that it was little short of a sacred duty with him to be transferred to canvas; for he was getting on in years, and it was not likely that he would ever find a suitable bride by means of whom he might be reproduced in flesh and blood. It was a terrible thing to think that the last of the Stuarts might pass from the earth without a record; that, unconscious of his existence while alive, the nation should not even have an opportunity of beholding his...
| ISBN-13 | 9781153962094 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1153962098 |
| Weight | 2.05 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.42 In |
| List Price | $22.40 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 642 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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