Excerpt from The Madras House: A Comedy in Four Acts Julia started life - that is to say, left school - as a genius. The head mistress had had two or three years of such dull girls that really she could not resist this excitement. Watercolour sketches were the me dium. So julia was dressed in brown velveteen, and sent to an art school, where they wouldn't let her do watercolour drawing at all. And in two years she learnt enough about the trade of an artist not ever to want to do those watercolour drawings again. Julia is ...
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Excerpt from The Madras House: A Comedy in Four Acts Julia started life - that is to say, left school - as a genius. The head mistress had had two or three years of such dull girls that really she could not resist this excitement. Watercolour sketches were the me dium. So julia was dressed in brown velveteen, and sent to an art school, where they wouldn't let her do watercolour drawing at all. And in two years she learnt enough about the trade of an artist not ever to want to do those watercolour drawings again. Julia is now over thirty, and very unhappy. Three of her watercolours (early masterpieces) hang on the drawing-rooni wall. They shame her, but her mother won't have them taken down. Oh a holiday she'll be off now and then for a solitary day's sketching, and as she tears up the vain attempt to put on paper the things she has learnt to see, she sometimes cries. It was julia, emma and jane who, some years ago, conspired to present their mother with that intensely conspicuous cosy corner. A cosy corner is apparently a device for making a corner just what the very nature of a corner should forbid it to be. They beggared themselves; but one wishes that mr. Huxtable were more lavish with his dress allowances, then they might at least have afforded something not quite so hideous. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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