Liber Amoris, or, the New Pygmalion by William Hazlitt
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sight? Was there?
S. No, Sir, none. H. Well, I didn't think it likely there should. S. But there was a likeness. H. To whom? S. To that little image! (looking intently on a small bronze figure of Buonaparte on the mantelpiece). H. What, do you mean to Buonaparte? S. Yes, all but the nose was just like. H. And was his figure the same? S. He was taller! [I got up and gave her the image, and told her it was hers by every right that was sacred. She refused at first to take so valuable a curiosity, and said she would keep it for me. But I pressed it eagerly, and she look it. She immediately came and sat down, and put her arm round my neck, and kissed me, and I said, "Is it not plain we are the best friends in the world, since we are always so glad to make it up?" And then I added "How odd it was that the God of my idolatry should turn out to be like her Idol, and said it was no wonder that the same face which awed the world should conquer the sweetest creature in it!" How I |
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