And it WILL be said by many oracular, long-established newspapers, while Cellini lives.

As soon as he is dead--ah! c'est autre chose!--he will then most probably be acknowledged the greatest master of the age.
There may even be a Cellini 'School of Colouring,' where a select company of daubers will profess to know the secret that has died with him.

It is the way of the world!" Mr.Challoner's rugged face showed signs of satisfaction, and his shrewd eyes twinkled.
"Right you are, sir!" he said, holding up his glass of wine.

"I drink to you! Sir, I agree with you! I calculate there's a good many worlds flying round in space, but a more ridiculous, feeble-minded, contrary sort of world than this one, I defy any archangel to find!" Heliobas laughed, nodded, and after a slight pause resumed: "It is astonishing to me that people do not see to what an infinite number of uses they could put the little re-discovery they have made of LUMINOUS PAINT.

In that simple thing there is a secret, which as yet they do not guess--a wonderful, beautiful, scientific secret, which may perhaps take them a few hundred years to find out.