Only wait till I come to that; and see how I'll lay on the paint! Didn't you find drawing infernally difficult, Blyth, when you first began ?" "I find it difficult still, Master Zack," replied Mr.Blyth.

"Art wouldn't be the glorious thing it is, if it wasn't all difficulty from beginning to end; if it didn't force out all the fine points in a man's character as soon as he takes to it.

Just eight o'clock," continued Valentine, looking at his watch.

"Put down your drawing-boards for the present.

I pronounce the sitting of this Academy to be suspended till after tea." "Valentine, dear," said Mrs.Blyth, smiling mysteriously, as she slipped her hand under the coverlid of the couch, "I can't get Madonna to look at me, and I want her here.