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...doux d'expirer sur un coeur...
...cheerful grind. Your chum, a would-be member of the ball nine, is practising drop-catch against the opposite wall; you wish, though perhaps you don't say so, that he was - anywhere, out of the room. You have collected a jolly set for euchre or vingt-et-un, and, coming into your room, find your chum hard at work upon his next theme. Though the conflict of purposes be amicably settled in both cases, you must feel how much more pleasant it would be to be sure of having your room free, when you want...
...path only so far as to upset their faith in their old ideas of art. These substitute in its place such a doubt of their power to appreciate works of true genius, and such a fear lest their ignorance of some technical point may lead them into some un-Ruskinian expression of admiration, that the pleasure which they feel in contemplating masterpieces is greatly blunted, if not totally destroyed...