Pointing to the miniature of the man within the locket he handed the photograph to Jane, holding the open locket beside it.
The girl pointed to the photograph and then to the miniature and then to him, as though to indicate that she thought the likenesses were of him, but he only shook his head, and then shrugging his great shoulders, he took the photograph from her and having carefully rewrapped it, placed it again in the bottom of his quiver.
Worn by sickness and sorrow; browned by the sun on my long homeward voyage; my hair already growing thin over my forehead; my eyes already habituated to their one sad and weary look; what had I in common with the fair, plump, curly-headed, bright-eyed boy who confronted me in the
miniature? The mere sight of the portrait produced the most extraordinary effect on my mind.
She seems to have put aside the
miniature, and is standing again before the toilet-glass.
I am here on behalf of the Queen your mother, with the object of delivering your Highness; to prove which, behold this portrait which she gave me herself.' So saying he drew forth the
miniature from under his wing.
Its arms were fully as slender as its legs, and upon a rather long neck was perched its head -- not unlike the head of a man, except that its nose ended in a curling antenna, or "feeler," and its ears from the upper points bore antennae that decorated the sides of its head like two
miniature, curling pig tails.
I thought
miniature painting on ivory was a lost art."
The bow-window looked down the avenue of limes; the furniture was all of a faded blue, and there were miniatures of ladies and gentlemen with powdered hair hanging in a group.
"This is your mother," said Dorothea, who had turned to examine the group of miniatures. "It is like the tiny one you brought me; only, I should think, a better portrait.
'I have no money to throw away on
miniatures, ma'am, and nobody to give one to (thank God) if I had.
Below this picture was a
miniature of William; and my tears flowed when I looked upon it.
"And that," said Mrs Reynolds, pointing to another of the
miniatures, "is my master-- and very like him.
It was an old fashioned golden locket bearing
miniatures of her father and mother with their names and the date of their marriage.
Even Scoresby, the justly renowned Right whaleman, after giving us a stiff full length of the Greenland whale, and three or four delicate
miniatures of narwhales and porpoises, treats us to a series of classical engravings of boat hooks, chopping knives, and grapnels; and with the microscopic diligence of a Leuwenhoeck submits to the inspection of a shivering world ninety-six fac-similes of magnified Arctic snow crystals.
Indeed, I recognised it as being of a Parisian design as yet little known in England; while on the tops of the stockings I laughingly suspected a border designed by a certain eccentric artist, who devotes his strange gifts to decorating with fascinating
miniatures the under-world of woman.
