Under the Skylights

vening papers from the library table, sent her younger sister off with arithmetic and geography to the dining-room, extracted a few sheets of monogrammed paper from the silver stationery-rac

e results. She herself always thought better with a pen in her hand and a w

enholder and made a dog-ear on the

will not draw upon the early pages of the local annals, we will not attempt to reconstruct the o

es

st how shall w

ienna; though Giles's idea of shading the six on the lef

l with any such idea as that? No; we must have

fingdon reluctantly; "and surely you can't expe

d definite. Even if we are artists we mustn't give those hard-headed old fellows any chance to accuse us of wabbling

d the rugs, the hanging

e murmured vaguely, "'E

gilia, doing a little

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raising his eyes tow

rgilia quickly, by way o

ur'--" Daffingdon confusedly dipped the wrong end

t was the matter with her idol? What had he done with all his fund of information? What had become of his ideas, his imagination? She felt that if she were to approach a bit

t not for a general scheme. 'The March of Progress '-that might be better as a broad working basis,

sippi'-'The Last of the Buffaloes'-' The Corner-Sto

uch for that sort of t

N

ry of Banking in all Ages'! There, what do you think

lieve I know so very much a

t purpose. Come, tell me, isn't that a promising idea? What a s

lmost cowed him. "Isn't that a pretty large theme?" he questi

gs! And there were the Fuggers at Augsburg who trafficked with emperors: houses with those step-ladder gables, and people with puffed elbows and slashed sleeves and feathers of all colours in those wide hats. And then the way that kings and emperors treated the bankers: Edward the Second refusing to repay his Florentine loans and bringing the whole city to ruin; Charles the First sallying out to the Mint a

affingdon; "so much effort; s

he ducats designed by Da Vinci and by Cellini! And all the Byzantine coins in Gibbon-the student's edition is full of them! Why, there are even the Assyrian tablets-you must have heard about the discovery of the records of that old Babylonian bank. Think of the costumes, the

e murmured.

r five of you could manage it ver

"One of the professors for a third. And somebody

, then," said Virgilia

on of Argos? He was one

elstane, who regulated

ons