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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Pictures of People, by Charles Dana Gibson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license Title: Pictures of People Author: Charles Dana Gibson Release Date: July 19, 2020 [EBook #62700] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PICTURES OF PEOPLE *** Produced by Chuck Greif (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive) Pictures of People BY C. D. Gibson PICTURES OF PEOPLE BY CHARLES DANA GIBSON R. H. RUSSELL & SON, NEW YORK JOHN LANE, LONDON MDCCCXCVI Thanks are due to Messrs. Mitchell & Miller, Harper & Brothers, Charles Scribner’s Sons, The Century Company, Stone & Kimball, and The London Graphic, for their kind permission to reproduce a number of the drawings included in this collection. Copyright by MITCHELL & MILLER. Copyright by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS. Copyright by HARPER & BROTHERS. Copyright by THE CENTURY COMPANY. Copyright by STONE & KIMBALL. COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY ROBERT HOWARD RUSSELL. TO A BIG AMERICAN GIRL. [Image unavailable.] A LOVE SONG. {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} [Image unavailable.] AT A COMEDY. [Image unavailable.] THEIR PRESENCE OF MIND. THEY HAD BEEN IN THEIR ROOM BUT A MOMENT WHEN THEY WERE STARTLED BY A KNOCK. [Image unavailable.] AFTER THE QUARREL. [Image unavailable.] TWO BLIND WOMEN. [Image unavailable.] [Image unavailable.] READING THE WILL. [Image unavailable.] THE COMING GAME. YALE VERSUS VASSAR. [Image unavailable.] THE LEADING FEATURES OF A LIBERAL EDUCATION. [Image unavailable.] THE MORNING AFTER ELECTION DAY. [Image unavailable.] NOTHING BUT FAME. THE WORLD’S APPLAUSE IS NOT EVERYTHING. {11} {12} {13} {15} {14} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} [Image unavailable.] THE HUNT BALL. First Shade: THERE’S ONE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS PLACE. Second Shade: WHAT’S THAT? “WE CAN SMOKE.“ {21} {22} [Image unavailable.] A DRAMA. SHE HAS JUST PREVENTED HIS PROPOSING BY TELLING HIM SHE IS ENGAGED. “DID I UNDERSTAND YOU TO SAY, JOHN, THAT THE TENOR MARRIED THE CONTRALTO?“ “YES. THE CHOIR WAS TO BE DISBANDED, AND THAT WAS THE ONLY MEANS OF CONTINUING THEIR QUARREL.“ [Image unavailable.] A LITTLE STORY. BY A SLEEVE. {23} {24} {25} {26} The Doctor: DID YOU GIVE MY NOTE TO MRS. BARTON? “GREAT SCOTT! I THOUGHT IT WAS A PRESCRIPTION AND MADE IT UP FOR HER.“ [Image unavailable.] Sympathetic plain friend to inconsolable young widow: THE LAST TIME I MET YOUR DEAR HUSBAND HE STOPPED AND SPOKE TO ME WITH SUCH A SUNNY GREETING THAT I WAS THE HAPPIER FOR IT ALL DAY LONG. Young widow (still oblivious to everything except her loss): YES, THAT WAS JUST LIKE DEAR DAVID. THERE WAS NO WOMAN SO HUMBLE OR HOMELY, OR UNATTRACTIVE, OR DULL, BUT THAT HE COULD FIND SOMETHING PLEASANT TO SAY TO HER, AND WOULD TAKE PAINS TO SAY IT.— {27} {28} IN PARIS. [Image unavailable.] THE DAY OF CARNOT’S FUNERAL. [Image unavailable.] THE CHÂTEAU ROUGE. [Image unavailable.] AU MONTMARTRE. [Image unavailable.] MOULIN ROUGE. [Image unavailable.] THE AMBASSADEURS. [Image unavailable.] LE CHAT NOIR. [Image unavailable.] AFTER THE GRAND PRIX. [Image unavailable.] ARISTIDE BRUANT’S. {29} {30} {31} {32} {33} {34} {35} {36} {37} [Image unavailable.] IN THE LATIN QUARTER. [Image unavailable.] AT D’ARMENONVILLE. [Image unavailable.] AT THE CAFÉ DE HORLOGUE. [Image unavailable.] IN DAYS TO COME, WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THIS BOY? [Image unavailable.] A CABINET MEETING. WHEN OUR BETTERS RULE. [Image unavailable.] A COUNCIL OF WAR IN THE DAYS TO COME. [Image unavailable.] IN DAYS TO COME THE CHURCHES MAY BE FULLER. [Image unavailable.] TRIAL BY JURY. [Image unavailable.] HER FIRST GLIMPSE OF ROYALTY. {38} {39} {40} {41} {42} {43} {44} {45} {46} WAITING TO BE PRESENTED. [Image unavailable.] THE RECRUITING SERGEANT. AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. HER FIRST PICTURE. SKIED! {47} {48} [Image unavailable.] AN AFTER-DINNER RELIEF. [Image unavailable.] EXTRACT FROM THE WILL. “AND I FURTHER DIRECT THAT IN THE EVENT OF THE REMARRIAGE OF MY SAID WIFE SOPHIA, ALL HER SHARE AND INTEREST IN THE AFORESAID CAPITAL SUM OF 500,000 SHALL IMMEDIATELY CEASE AND DETERMINE.“ [Image unavailable.] IN A LONDON THEATRE. AT THREE IN THE AFTERNOON. “HELLO, OLD MAN! BEEN UP ALL NIGHT?“ “NO; I’M GOING TO TAKE A HARLEM GIRL TO A THEATRE PARTY IN BROOKLYN.“ [Image unavailable.] HER NIGHTMARE. HOW SHE SAW HERSELF. [Image unavailable.] SOME RARE BIRDS. [Image unavailable.] THE POWER OF LOVE. THERE WAS A SILENCE DEEP AS DEATH; AND THE BOLDEST HELD HIS BREATH, FOR A TIME. Campbell. {49} {50} {51} {52} {53} {54} {55} {56} [Image unavailable.] [Image unavailable.] GOLF IS NOT THE ONLY GAME ON EARTH. [Image unavailable.] LOVE AND DUTY. He: YOUR FATHER ADVISES ME TO INVEST MY FORTUNE IN WALL STREET. IT WOULD BE POLITIC, I SUPPOSE. “NO, DON’T YOU DO IT! AFTER HE’D WON ALL YOUR MONEY HE’D NEVER LET US MARRY.“ [Image unavailable.] WHAT DOES HE WANT? [Image unavailable.] A PROFESSIONAL EVENING. {57} {58} {59} {60} {61} {62} [Image unavailable.] PREVIOUS TENANTS. SOME MIDNIGHT VISITORS IN AN OLD HOUSE IN WASHINGTON SQUARE. {63} {64} {65} [Image unavailable.] OUT OF HIS CLASS. [Image unavailable.] AN AMBASSADOR’S BALL IN THE DAYS TO COME. [Image unavailable.] [Image unavailable.] FOOLED AGAIN. {66} {67} {68} {69} {70} [Image unavailable.] CHEER UP, GIRLS! THEY ARE COMING. [Image unavailable.] [Image unavailable.] AN ARGUMENT WITH THE LEADING LADY. {71} {72} {73} {74} [Image unavailable.] SCHOOL GIRLS. [Image unavailable.] “THE WRONG MAN? BUT THAT IS VAGUE. WHO IS THE WRONG MAN?“ “THE MAN A GIRL MARRIES, OF COURSE.“ [Image unavailable.] TEMPTATION. {75} {76} {77} {78}

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