The Petrified Man has sold everybody else, and now the mean fraud has ended by selling its own ghost! My son, if there is any charity left in your heart for a poor friendless phantom like me, don't let this get out.

Think how you would feel if you had made such an ass of yourself." I heard his stately tramp die away, step by step down the stairs and out into the deserted street, and felt sorry that he was gone, poor fellow -- and sorrier still that he had carried off my red blanket and my bath-tub.
THE CAPITOLINE VENUS CHAPTER I [Scene-An Artist's Studio in Rome.] "Oh, George, I do love you!" "Bless your dear heart, Mary, I know that--why is your father so obdurate ?" "George, he means well, but art is folly to him--he only understands groceries.

He thinks you would starve me." "Confound his wisdom--it savors of inspiration.

Why am I not a money-making bowelless grocer, instead of a divinely gifted sculptor with nothing to eat ?" "Do not despond, Georgy, dear--all his prejudices will fade away as soon as you shall have acquired fifty thousand dol--" "Fifty thousand demons! Child, I am in arrears for my board!".