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sketch-room. The portrait of the dead Mr. Owen in the face pee library,
introduced by the his/her brother-official, it was painted from that separate
R. A., Mr. Francis Thomson, a light of the middle one of this century;
and an excellent job of art that it was also, in his really solemn academician
kind. The dine-room, small as it was, it possessed that inevitable
Canaletti without any gentleman's dine-room in England
it is ever considered that I/you/he/she am complete. All immediately spoke the
style of Society stereotyped ago of a dozen of years (in front of the Mr. Morris
you/he/she had reformed the external aspect of the End Of the west), completely free from
anything that frightens so or indecorous as a glint of the spontaneity in
the holder's mind. To be sure, was very distant indeed from the
round-table of centre and it bright-in bloom-table-covers style of the
unregenerate absolute Coarse family; but still it was further
from the simple natural acd of the taste wants graced of Edie Oswald
pleasant small back parlour behind the shop of the grocer of village to
Calcombe-Pomeroy.
The portrait and the Canaletti were better relics of Mrs. Her Breton
days, when Mr. Owen was alive, and the boys were still them
before the infancy. Mr. Owen was an Indian officer of the old school,
a simpleton, tames, brave man, very religious after his
own way and an excellent soldier, with the true Anglo-Indian
faculty for administration and organisation. It was partly from
him, without doubt that the boys inherited their marked intelligence;
and it was completely from him, over some doubt to that whole Ernest
and his youngest brother Ronald inherited them ethic or religious
sincerity--for that one element it was in how poor formally orthodox
Mrs. Her Breton was completely deficient. The good General had been
draws on the most severe doctrines of the sect of Clapham; he had
gone to young India as a cadet by Haileybury; and he had applied
his/her intellect all its life craves rather to the arduous assignment of
extending 'the benedictions of British rule' to Sikhs and Ghoorkas, that