Oct 16, 2007

China oil paintings

self-respecting of any in Europe: since those days I have seen
paysannes and Bauerinnen; and the best of them seemed to me
ignorant, coarse, and besotted, compared with my Morton girls.
'Do you consider you have got your reward for a season of
exertion?' asked Mr. Rivers, when they were gone. 'Does not the
consciousness of having done some real good in your day and generation
give pleasure?'
'Doubtless.'
'And you have only toiled a few months! Would not a life devoted to
the task of regenerating your race be well spent?'
'Yes,' I said; 'but I could not go on for ever so: I want to
enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other
people. I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body
to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday.'
He looked grave. 'What now? What sudden eagerness is this you
evince? What are you going to do?'
'To be active: as active as I can. And first I must beg you to
set Hannah at liberty, and get somebody else to wait on you.'
'Do you want her?'
'Yes, to go with me to Moor House. Diana and Mary will be at home

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China oil paintings"

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China oil paintings"

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"China oil paintings"