To continue to possess a full-sized statue, a man must have a studio, a gallery, or at least the freedom of a back garden.

He cannot carry it about with him, like a satchel, in the bottom of a cab, nor can he cohabit in a garret, ten by fifteen, with so momentous a companion.

It was my first idea to leave her behind at my departure.

There, in her birthplace, she might lend an inspiration, methought, to my successor.

But the proprietor, with whom I had unhappily quarrelled, seized the occasion to be disagreeable, and called upon me to remove my property.