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From fire to oil was a natural transition for burned fingers, and Amy fell to painting with undiminished ardor.With other men he lived in a box car and away they went from town to town painting the railroad property-switches, crossing gates, bridges, and stations.He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain--no matter what--after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.The smile reminded Thorndike of the smile on the face of a mother in a painting by Murillo he had lately presented to the chapel in the college he had given to his native town.Moving on, I at last came to a dim sort of light not far from the docks, and heard a forlorn creaking in the air; and looking up, saw a swinging sign over the door with a white painting upon it, faintly representing a tall straight http://t otallyhistory.com/art-history/famous-artists/ jet of misty spray, and these words underneath -- The Spouter-Inn: --Peter Coffin.She wears a white shirtwaist, which represents, perhaps, half a week's labor painting cans.We had had the best instructors in drawing and painting in Germany--Ha"mmerling, Vogel, Mu"ller, Dietz, and Schumann.I've learned decalcomania, and after I take up lustre painting I shall have it simply stiff with drapes and tidies and placques and sofa pillows, and make mo- ther let me have a fire, and receive my friends there evenings.She put it into her hands as she spoke; and when Elinor saw the painting, whatever other doubts her fear of a too hasty decision, or her wish of detecting falsehood might suffer to linger in her mind, she could have none of its being Edward's face.In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes.I'd not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, fo r Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange - not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable, and painting the house- front with Hindley's bloodNoel Vanstone to take a private opportunity of looking at you; and I am going to give the lie direct to that she-devil Lecount by painting out your moles.

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