"Capital handling of the neck and throat; lovely work on the nose.

You 're a detestably lucky fellow, my boy! But you ought not to have squandered such material on a simple bust; you should have made a great imaginative figure.

If I could only have got hold of her, I would have put her into a statue in spite of herself.

What a pity she is not a ragged Trasteverine, whom we might have for a franc an hour! I have been carrying about in my head for years a delicious design for a fantastic figure, but it has always stayed there for want of a tolerable model.

I have seen intimations of the type, but Miss Light is the perfection of it.