But these are beautiful." He turned with a pleasant laugh.

She had already taken note of his voice, but his laugh was even more musical.
"Daphne pursued by Apollo," he commenced, waving his hand towards the panel in face of her.

"Be pleased to observe the lady sinking into the bush; an effect which the ingenious painter has stolen from no less a masterpiece than the Buisson Ardent' of Nicholas Froment." The General fumbled for the ribbon of his gold eye-glass.

M.Raoul moved towards the next panel, and Dorothea followed him.
"Perseus entering the Garden of the Hesperides." The painting, though slapdash, was astonishingly clever; and in this, as in other panels, no trace of the artist's hurry appeared in the reposeful design.

Coiled about the foot of the tree, the dragon Ladon blinked an eye lazily at three maidens pacing hand in hand in the dance, over-hung with dark boughs and golden fruit.