Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . couth mannikin was ! I felt the need of apologisingfor this unaccountable interloper. When I was trying tospeak they over-ruled my excuses with exclamations ofdelight. Their eyes were lighted up with animation asthey declared in a chorus that the image was indeed trulybeautiful. See what a lovely face she has ! What anexquisite nose ! What a beautiful little mouth ! Oh !look at her ears, and see what long flowing hair she also cirew attention to the beauty of the fingers ! Atthis I moved some of the joints, and also bent the limbs i
Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . couth mannikin was ! I felt the need of apologisingfor this unaccountable interloper. When I was trying tospeak they over-ruled my excuses with exclamations ofdelight. Their eyes were lighted up with animation asthey declared in a chorus that the image was indeed trulybeautiful. See what a lovely face she has ! What anexquisite nose ! What a beautiful little mouth ! Oh !look at her ears, and see what long flowing hair she also cirew attention to the beauty of the fingers ! Atthis I moved some of the joints, and also bent the limbs invarious ways. As the hinges groaned and squeakeci, theyretreated, jumping like children with delight, but quicklyrecovering their sobriety of demeanour, they came back insilent admiration, leaving the elder to speak. This lady,collecting her thoughts, sedately addressed me. We allknow that the Image is not yet completed. Pointingat the time to the winch-holes, she proceeded, Of courseyou will have to finish the figure where the skin is X;- XT r- T,. I \ ^^ XII PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD 327 not joined together, and you will have to fix the headon, and to put a little more crimson on the lips andcheeks, but when completed it will be truly their interest in this big doll, they turned tothe painting on the easel. After consultation, the elderexclaimed, It looks like paper on the surface, but on themargin outside it is cloth ! Then, following the outlinesdrawn on the big canvas, they compared it with the smallstudy of the picture. Is that a man youve marked outthere ? she asked. Oh ! I see a donkey ! What a lotof babies, and in the middle is a woman on a donkey witha baby. What is all this, O I replied, Nearlynineteen hundred years ago in Persia, certain wise menon the appearance of a great star remembered an ancientprophecv of the coming Messiah. They came to thiscountry to find him, and naturally they went to the king,thinking it would be his son,
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