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72 Like a monkey in the forest. "Am I sitting still?" she asked him. "Is my face enough in profile? Shall I hold the nosegay higher? Will it come into the picture?" And the picture failed completely. Next the Son, the Stunning-Cantab: He suggested curves of beauty, Curves pervading all his figure, Which the eye might follow onward, Till they centered in the breast-pin, Centered in the golden breast-pin. He had learnt it all from Ruskin (Author of 'The Stones of Venice, 'Seven Lamps of Architecture, Modern Painters,' and some others); And perhaps he had not fully Understood his author's meaning; But, whatever was the reason,