Lackeys and minions brought in pails of kalsomine, of various tints, some of pale pastel shades, others of deep rich hues.
She was inpastel chiffon boudoir jambiéres picked out with rosebuds.
At this time Clotilde amused herself for several days by painting a large pastel representing the tender scene of old King David and Abishag, the young Shunammite.
She did not even turn round, so engrossed was her attention with the pastelwhich she was at the moment rapidly sketching in with broad strokes of the crayon.
Clotilde had just finished arranging the little garments on the table when, lifting her eyes, she perceived before her the pastel of old King David, with his hand resting on the shoulder of Abishag the young Shunammite.
But one morning when he had overslept himself, and did not leave his room until eleven o'clock, he saw Clotilde in the study, quietly occupied in copying with great exactness in pastel a branch of flowering almond.
The day on which Martine saw the pastel nailed to the wall, she looked at it a moment in silence, then she made the sign of the cross, but whether it was because she had seen God or the devil, no one could say.
You had a pass-key to his little house on the Boulevard des Poissonniers, and for your first rendezvous you dressed in the costume of Diana, the huntress, exactly as in that handsome pastel portrait of yourself.
In the middle of the mantel, a portrait of Frederick, an admirable likeness done in pastel by David, was placed on an easel; a bright fire burned in the chimney, and on a table were preparations for a simple and rustic collation.
We were standing before a pastel when he spoke--a thing of heavy shadows with purple deeps, wherefrom there stood forth dimly the figures of a crippled man and an old sick woman, and the face of a child with brazen eyes.
My imagination did not run to Japanese colour prints and pastel studies, and neatly framed examples of the art of Mr. Nicholson.
Fanny, in a frock the color of pale pastel pink, a wide hat in which that color was repeated, her eyes blue as the sea and bluer, added to its charm.
Meanwhile she had changed herpastel frock for another, which, if a bit rumpled in transit, became her wonderfully well.
In the beginning of a pastel he drew his subject crisply and carefully in outline with black crayon upon one of the sheets of tinted paper which fitted the general colour of the motives.
Like most of the Bohemian residents of the place, she found her way to the studio at Windy Howe, and a pastel drawing of her profile soon stood on Mr. Castleton's easel.
They were rendered in a medium of her own invention, a combination of pencil, paint, and crayon, which gave the soft effect of a pastel with the permanence of a water-colour.
His faded blue and rose, his golden-greys, and pearly whites and pastel tints are not so much solid colours as caprices of light.
She did more than anybody else to promote the fashion for pastels, and her delightful art may be seen at its best in the pastel room of the Dresden Gallery.
Yes, you are right, the pastel is charming, but if you had known the original you would have thought her still more charming!
I think I have told you that the original of that pastel occupied a good deal of my attention in those early days!
Besides, we may perhaps be able to unearth some curious anecdote from out the medley, concerning a charming pastel by Latour.
You mean to tell me that you don't know even that much about the ship-building business, that you would actually go to work and make up for the fall trade a line of whalebacks in pastel shades?
Also it seems that the only line of goods for a new beginner in the ship-building business to specialize in is whalebacks in pastel shades, Abe, and that's the way it goes.
He is not a nice young man at all," said Mercedes frankly, exhibiting a rather clever little pastel of herself, "this Wright.
He has invented a kind of engraving mixed with wash-drawing, pastel crayon crushed with brushes of special pattern.
A small pastelat the Luxembourg Gallery proves her convincing qualities as a colourist.
Among these is a highly poetic pastel that displays the soul of man surprised in the first post-mortem ambuscades.
At the time it is probable that the story of the love of the sons of Jahveh for the daughters of men, together with the pastel of Eden as it stands to-day, were not contained in existing accounts of that ideal.
It rumbled through the streets among the pastel beehives.
The truck would pass through a square or a park now and again and the buildings in the distance looked like a mass of soap bubbles, all pastel colors under that blue-white-pink sky.
He removed a cracked pitcher full of purple asters from its perilous position at the head of the bed and swept his glance over the crude table littered with envelopes in cream and pastel shades.
For him life was too all-absorbing and vivid an enterprise to tolerate the pastel existence of ghosts.
Over the mantel-piece is the little pastel by La Tour I told you I bought last year.
It was a little pastel by La Tour, and the last owner had framed it in a brand-new, brilliant gilt Florentine frame.
Now the pastel blue walls of the room slowly faded to white, and then I was somewhere else, a universe away, surrounded by blank nothingness.
When I looked down, everywhere below me was a bank of dense, pastel mist.
Chapter Twenty-four I'm on a bed, in a dreamscape room enveloped in pastel fog, watching a Melania butterfly the size of a man pump his massive orange and black wings above me.
Still, below us the windblown treetops were a solid mass of pastel sparkles, a dancing sea of hungry green .
Nose-rings flashed, and in the dim station light I caught faint gleams ofpastel scarves--sea-green and rose.
The moonlight would make him ghostly--a pastel frog; but in the day he flaunted splashes of azure and green on his scarlet body.
Thargelie Dumarsais;" the letters are faded and yellow, but the pastel is living and laughing yet, through the divine touch of the genius of La Tour.
Painted in the days of Louis Quinze, the light of more than a century having fallen on its soft colors to fade and blot them with the icy brush of time, my pastel is still fresh, still eloquent.
Her own were soft and shining in the moonlight, and she was smiling a little--the roguish little smile of the imitation pastel portrait.
And her smile had no unpleasant uplift at the corners; it was the dimply, roguish smile of the pastel portrait only several times nicer.
He fought against remembrance of that day; and for sake of diversion he took to studying a large, pastel portrait of Mona which hung against the wall opposite his bed.
