They must have taken you a long time; you work slowly." "Yes, unfortunately, I work very slowly.

One of them took me six weeks, the other two months." "Upon my word! The Muse pays you long visits." And Gloriani turned and looked, from head to foot, at so unlikely an object of her favors.
Singleton smiled and began to wipe his forehead very hard.

"Oh, you!" said the sculptor; "you 'll keep it up!" A week after his dinner-party, Rowland went into Roderick's studio and found him sitting before an unfinished piece of work, with a hanging head and a heavy eye.

He could have fancied that the fatal hour foretold by Gloriani had struck.

Roderick rose with a sombre yawn and flung down his tools.