Text Appearing Before Image: , to place themselves in her hands. Onelongs to paint her amid her home surroundings, inan atmosphere vibrating with music, bathed inart; one longs to show that lovable serenity, thatwonderful gaiety and prodigious activity, whichperhaps strike one most of all. This little sketch of her career will be brought toan end by a quotation from a letter, in which onemay appreciate the exquisite turn which she givesto every phrase and thought:— ... Mais oil trouver le temps de faire ce quonvoudrait ? Cest a peine si on arrive a faire ce quondoit! En vieillissant, le temps passe de plus en 138 SECOND PERIOD—PARIS. plus vite et vous entraine dune course vertigineusevers le Grand Inconnu! sans arret, sans repos, sanspitie. II y aura peut-etre dans le ciel une immensebibliotheque, ou les oeuvres du genie seront ras-semblees, et je me promets dy faire de fameusesseances de lectures!... It is the letter of a moment, but the sentiments,which she expresses so beautifully, are those of aneternity. Text Appearing After Image: Photo by IV. <Sr= D. Downey.
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