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The Hidden Masterpiece

The Hidden Masterpiece

Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
De Balzac, Honore

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ISBN10: 1514808579
ISBN13: 9781514808573
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 3 2015
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
[...]respects was singularly withered and worn by the weariness of old age, and still more, it would seem, by the action of thoughts which had undermined both soul and body. The eyes had lost their lashes, and the eyebrows were scarcely traced along the projecting arches where they belonged. Imagine such a head upon a lean and feeble body, surround it with lace of dazzling whiteness worked in meshes like a fish-slice, festoon the black velvet doublet of the old man with a heavy gold chain, and you will have a faint idea of the exterior of this strange individual, to whose appearance the dusky light of the landing lent fantastic coloring. You might have thought that a canvas of Rembrandt without its frame had walked silently up the stairway, bringing with it the dark atmosphere which was the sign-manual of the great master. The old man cast a look upon the youth which was full of sagacity; then he rapped three times upon the door, and said, when it was opened by a man in feeble health, apparently about forty [...].

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