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In Luck at Last

In Luck at Last

Besant, Walter

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RomanceHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1153630877
ISBN13: 9781153630870
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.26 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ...was in the afternoon. But he now got into the habit of coming in the morning, and would sit in silence looking on. He came partly because he liked the young man, and partly because the painter's art was new to him, and it amused him to watch a man giving his whole time and intellect to the copying or faces and things on canvas. Also, he was well aware by this time that it was not to see Mr. Emblem or himself that Arnold spent every evening at the house, and he was amused to watch the progress of an English courtship. In India, we know, they manage matters differently, and so as to give the bridegroom no more trouble than is necessary. This young man, however, took, he observed, the most wonderful pains and the most extraordinary trouble to please. Do you know, Lala Roy, Arnold said one morning after a silence of three hours or so, do you know that this is going to be the portrait of the most beautiful woman in the world, and the best? It is well, said the Philosopher, when a young man desires virtue as well as beauty. You have known her all her life. Don't trouble yourself to speak, Lala. You can nod your head if there isn't a maxim ready. You began to lodge in the house twenty years ago, and you have seen her every day since. If she is not the best, as well as the most beautiful girl in the world, you ought to know and can contradict me. But you do know it. Happy is the man, said the Sage, who shall call her wife; happy the children who shall call her mother. I suppose, Lala, Arnold went on with an ingenuous blush, I suppose that you have perceived that

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