Rhyme? and reason? . FIRST THE GOVERNOR, THE FATHER 70 HJA ff ^ 77/AS FHOTOGRAFIIING. Gracefully she sat down sideways,With a simper scarcely human,Holding in her hand a bouquetRather larger than a the while that she was the lady chattered, chattered,Like a monkey in the I sitting still? she asked him. Is my face enough in profile ?Shall I hold the bouquet higher ?Will it come into the picture ? And the picture failed completely. Next the Son, the Stunning-Cantab :He suggested curves of beauty,Curves pervading all his the eye might follow onward
Rhyme? and reason? . FIRST THE GOVERNOR, THE FATHER 70 HJA ff ^ 77/AS FHOTOGRAFIIING. Gracefully she sat down sideways,With a simper scarcely human,Holding in her hand a bouquetRather larger than a the while that she was the lady chattered, chattered,Like a monkey in the I sitting still? she asked him. Is my face enough in profile ?Shall I hold the bouquet higher ?Will it come into the picture ? And the picture failed completely. Next the Son, the Stunning-Cantab :He suggested curves of beauty,Curves pervading all his the eye might follow onward,Till they centered in the breast-pin,Centered in the golden had learnt it all from Ruskin(Author of The Stones of Venice, * Seven Lamps of Architecture, * Modern Painters, and some others);And perhaps he had not fully. NEXT THE SON, THE i 7 Z HI A I f A 771 AS PHO TO GRA PHING, Understood his authors meaning;But, whatever was the reason,All was fruitless, as the pictureEnded in an ulter failure. Next to him the eldest daughter:She suggested very asked if he would take herWith her look of passive beauty. Her idea of passive beautyWas a squinting of the left-eye,Was a drooping of the right-eye,Was a smile that went up sidewaysTo the corner of the nostrils. Hiawatha, when she asked no notice of the question,Looked as if he hadnt heard it;But, when pointedly appealed to,Smiled in his peculiar and said it didnt matter,Bit his lip and changed the subject. Nor in this was he mistaken,As the picture failed completely. So in turn the other sisters.
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