[The Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.]@TWC D-Link bookThe Complete PG Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. PREFACE TO THE NEW EDITION 65/419
That his room contains heavy furniture, that he is a restless little body and is apt to be up late, that he talks to himself, and keeps mainly to himself, is nearly all I have yet found out. One curious circumstance happened lately which I mention without drawing an absolute inference.
Being at the studio of a sculptor with whom I am acquainted, the other day, I saw a remarkable cast of a left arm.
On my asking where the model came from, he said it was taken direct from the arm of a deformed person, who had employed one of the Italian moulders to make the cast.
It was a curious case, it should seem, of one beautiful limb upon a frame otherwise singularly imperfect--I have repeatedly noticed this little gentleman's use of his left arm.
Can he have furnished the model I saw at the sculptor's? -- So we are to have a new boarder to-morrow.
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