. St. Nicholas [serial]. think that money shouldgive a miserable old usurer a painting he couldnot appreciate, and take it from Murillo, whowould have staked his very life for it! It wastoo much ! Outside, Murillo was hurrying home to hischeap lodgings. His eyes were full of tears also,but they were of a different kind. Well, henever will know the difference, the painterchuckled. I could hardly have allowed that poorwoman to be turned out on the street with thepittance the sale was bringing her. But whereshould / have been if the old scoundrel hadstopped bidding first! In the pillared Sevillan
. St. Nicholas [serial]. think that money shouldgive a miserable old usurer a painting he couldnot appreciate, and take it from Murillo, whowould have staked his very life for it! It wastoo much ! Outside, Murillo was hurrying home to hischeap lodgings. His eyes were full of tears also,but they were of a different kind. Well, henever will know the difference, the painterchuckled. I could hardly have allowed that poorwoman to be turned out on the street with thepittance the sale was bringing her. But whereshould / have been if the old scoundrel hadstopped bidding first! In the pillared Sevillan court rose-vines stillcling to the graceful white columns, the balus-trade is still covered with rose-heavy festoons,new boxes full of carnations and geraniums standon the tessellated floor, and in the central foun-tain the water gushes out with a spiral motionand falls splashing on the floating lilies in thebasin below. Just such a setting of flowers as thedreamer might see surrounding a beautiful Ma-donna of HE WAS MlCH GINKN TO SlINNlNG VAKNS. (SEE PAGE 334. THE BOYS LIFE OF MARK TWAIN BY ALBERT BIGELOW PAINE Author of Mark Twain, a Biograpliy, etc. Chapter XIII LEARNING THE RIVER In that early day, to be a pilot was to be greaterthan a king. The Mississippi River pilot wasa law unto himself—there was none above direction of the boat was absolute ; he couldstart or lay up when he chose; he could pass alanding regardless of business there, consultingnobody, not even the captain; he could take theboat into what seemed certain destruction, if hehad that mind, and the captain was obliged tostand by, helpless and silent, for the law waswith the pilot in everything. Furthermore, the pilot was a gentleman. Hiswork was clean and physically light. It endedthe instant the boat was tied to the landing, anddid not begin again until it was ready to back intothe stream. Also, for those days his salary wasprincely—the vice-president of the United Statesdid not recei
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