She laid aside the newspaper.
The plan of going to a concert being thus abandoned, the idea occurred to them of seeing pictures.

Teresa, in search of information, tried her luck at a great table in the middle of the room, on which useful books were liberally displayed.

She returned with a catalogue of the Royal Academy Exhibition (which someone had left on the table), and with the most universally well-informed book, on a small scale, that has ever enlightened humanity--modestly described on the title-page as an Almanac.
Carmina opened the catalogue at the first page, and discovered a list of Royal Academicians.

Were all these gentlemen celebrated painters?
Out of nearly forty names, three only had made themselves generally known beyond the limits of England.

She turned to the last page.