Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . g conversation from the time we started till themoment we again reached the hall door. When I had completed the chalk drawing, I invitedthe daughters to see it. They were full of admiration,but I could see there was some reserve in their minds,and when I pressed them to be quite frank, MissLushington innocently said, Why, youve made papawith wrinkles. To her and the family these marksof age had come so peacefully that they did not exist. Once, when I was talking to Dean Stanley about theJudges stories, I regretted that being so much absorbe
Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood . g conversation from the time we started till themoment we again reached the hall door. When I had completed the chalk drawing, I invitedthe daughters to see it. They were full of admiration,but I could see there was some reserve in their minds,and when I pressed them to be quite frank, MissLushington innocently said, Why, youve made papawith wrinkles. To her and the family these marksof age had come so peacefully that they did not exist. Once, when I was talking to Dean Stanley about theJudges stories, I regretted that being so much absorbedwith my work I was not able to write them down, as 1felt they certainly should not be left unrecorded ; butthe Dean told me that he had made it a rule to registerall that he had heard. No one could have chronicledthem better, but these records have not yet seen the light. I now had the canvas on which I had begun TheEgyptian Girl increased to take a life-sized figure, whichI proceeded with at intervals, and finished under the titleof The ;/ -. H. //. KING OF HEARTS. 224 PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE chap. In the beginning of 1862 all London was enthusias-tically stirred in expectation of the glories of the forth-coming International Exhibition, which was to be moreextended and superb than any that had preceded it. SirThomas Fairbairn, one of the great movers in theManchester Loan Collection of 1857, was one of theguarantors of the new venture, and came to London totake his place on the board. Pictures and marbles wereborrowed from afar, and the prospects were of the mostpromising character when, one Sunday morning whilepeople were on their way to church, the ominous bell ofSt. Pauls tolled out the mournful loss that the much-esteemed Prince Consort was dead. This distressful lossgrieved the whole nation and threw a great pall over thefortunes of the Exhibition ; but preparations had gonetoo far to allow it to be postponed, and when the openingday came, the joy at the ac
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