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Reminiscences of a portrait painter (1894)

Healy, G. P. A. (George Peter Alexander), 1813-1894 · Chicago : A.C. McClurg and Company · leaf 160

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aughed and said : I am accustomed togive orders, not to receive them. Butyou see, Mr. Healy, that I also know howto obey, and submissively went back tohis chair. Pius IX. has been dead now many ayear. I like to think of the few shortsittings he gave me in his cheerful li-brary; I like to remember… … POPE PIUS IX. Crowns and Coronets. 137 punishment in his own hands. I likeespecially to feel as though the hoursspent in his presence had cast a glow onmy later years, as the glorious setting sunbehind St. Peters throws a glamour overRome, its domes and gardens. I oftenthink, also, of Pius IX.s…

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