7/14 She tutors the mother, but not very successfully--partly because her own foundation is too flimsy and partly because she began too late. They've got an enormous Moor of painted plaster or something in the hall, and the girl evidently thought it was to her credit that she selected it!" "They have oil-paintings, too," added Mrs.Vertrees, with a glance of gentle price at the Landseers. "I've always thought oil-paintings in a private house the worst of taste." "Oh, if one owned a Raphael or a Titian!" said Mr.Vertrees, finishing the implication, not in words, but with a wave of his hand. None of the rest of them came in? |