A Phantom Lover

A Phantom Lover

A Phantom LoverYou thought it a fantastic tale, you lover of fantastic things, and urged me to...
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Author: Lee, Vernon,1856-1935
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Language: English
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A Phantom Lover

A Phantom Lover

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A Phantom Lover

$19.99 $9.99
Author: Lee, Vernon,1856-1935
Format: eBook
Language: English

A Phantom Lover

You thought it a fantastic tale, you lover of fantastic things, and urged me to write it out at once, although I protested that, in such matters, to write is to exorcise, to dispel the charm; and that printers' ink chases away the ghosts that may pleasantly haunt us, as efficaciously as gallons of holy water. But if, as I suspect, you will now put down any charm that story may have possessed to the way in which we had been working ourselves up, that firelight evening, with all manner of fantastic stuffif, as I fear, the story of Mrs. Oke of Okehurst will strike you as stale and unprofitablethe sight of this little book will serve at least to remind you, in the middle of your Russian summer, that there is such a season as winter, such a place as Florence, and such a person as your friend, That sketch up there with the boy's cap? Yes; that's the same woman. I wonder whether you could guess who she was. A singular being, is she not? The most marvellous creature, quite, that I have ever met: a wonderful elegance, exotic, far-fetched, poignant; an artificial perverse sort of grace and research in every outline and movement and arrangement of head and neck, and hands and fingers. Here are a lot of pencil sketches I made while I was preparing to paint her portrait. Yes; there's nothing but her in the whole sketchbook. Mere scratches, but they may give some idea of her marvellous, fantastic kind of grace. Here she is leaning over the staircase, and here sitting in the swing. Here she is walking quickly out of the room. That's her head. You see she isn't really handsome; her forehead is too big, and her nose too short. This gives no idea of her. It was altogether a question of movement. Look at the strange cheeks, hollow and rather flat; well, when she smiled she had the most marvellous dimples here. There was something exquisite and uncanny about it. Yes; I began the picture, but it was never finished. I did the husband first. I wonder who has his likeness now? Help me to move these pictures away from the wall. Thanks. This is her portrait; a huge wreck. I don't suppose you can make much of it; it is merely blocked in, and seems quite mad. You see my idea was to make her leaning against a wallthere was one hung with yellow that seemed almost brownso as to bring out the silhouette. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 8180
Author: Lee, Vernon
Release Date: May 1, 2005
Format: eBook
Language: English

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