{"product_id":"2940013668317","title":"The Return of Don Quixote","description":"The end of the longest room at Seawood Abbey was full of light; for the\u003cbr\u003ewalls were almost made of windows and it projected upon a terraced part\u003cbr\u003eof the garden above the park on an almost cloudless morning. Murrel,\u003cbr\u003ecalled Monkey for some reason that everybody had forgotten, and Olive\u003cbr\u003eAshley were taking advantage of the light to occupy themselves with\u003cbr\u003epainting; though she was painting on a very small scale and he on a very\u003cbr\u003elarge one. She was laying out peculiar pigments very carefully, in\u003cbr\u003eimitation of the flat jewellery of medieval illumination, for which she\u003cbr\u003ehad a great enthusiasm, as part of a rather vague notion of a historic\u003cbr\u003epast. He, on the other hand, was highly modern, and was occupied with\u003cbr\u003eseveral pails full of very crude colours and with brushes which reached\u003cbr\u003ethe stature of brooms. With these he was laying about him on large\u003cbr\u003esheets of lath and canvas, which were to act as scenery in some private\u003cbr\u003etheatricals then in preparation. They could not paint, either of them;\u003cbr\u003enor did they imagine that they could. But she was in some sense trying\u003cbr\u003eto do so; and he was not.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It's all very well for you to talk about discords,\" he was saying\u003cbr\u003esomewhat defensively, for she was a critical lady, \"but your style of\u003cbr\u003epainting narrows the mind. After all, scene-painting is only\u003cbr\u003eillumination seen through a microscope.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I hate microscopes,\" she observed briefly.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, you look as if you wanted one, poring over that stuff,\" replied\u003cbr\u003eher companion, \"in fact I fancy I have seen people screwing a great\u003cbr\u003ething in their eye while they did it. I hope you won't go so far as\u003cbr\u003ethat: it wouldn't suit your style at all.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was true enough, no doubt, for she was a small, slight girl, with\u003cbr\u003edark delicate features of the kind called regular; and her dark green\u003cbr\u003edress, which was aesthetic but the reverse of Bohemian, had something\u003cbr\u003eakin to the small severities of her task. There was something a shade\u003cbr\u003eold maidish about her gestures, although she was very young. It was\u003cbr\u003enoticeable that though the room was strewn with papers and dusters and\u003cbr\u003ethe flamboyant failures of Mr. Murrel's art, her own flat colour-box,\u003cbr\u003ewith its case and minor accessories, were placed about her with\u003cbr\u003eprotective neatness. She was not one of those for whom is written the\u003cbr\u003epaper of warnings sometimes sold with paint-boxes; and it had never been\u003cbr\u003enecessary to adjure her not to put the brush in the mouth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What I mean,\" she said, resuming the subject of microscopes, \"is that\u003cbr\u003eall your science and modern stuff has only made things ugly, and people\u003cbr\u003eugly as well. I don't want to look down a microscope any more than down\u003cbr\u003ea drain. You only see a lot of horrid little things crawling about. I\u003cbr\u003edon't want to look down at all. That's why I like all this old Gothic\u003cbr\u003epainting and building; in Gothic all the lines go upwards, right up to\u003cbr\u003ethe very spire that points to heaven.\"","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176466759920,"sku":"2940013668317","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013668317_p0.jpg?v=1763584022","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013668317","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}