in the short story of western flavor he was a pioneer of mark, the founder of a genre: probably no other writer is so significant in his field.

It is a great moment even for a great artist when he can sit and sigh in solitary satisfaction before a finished picture. I had looked at it while I was waiting for dinner, and even in that empty hour it had seemed masterly; so that now, … I expected to feel in it that which surpasses the merely masterly of talent (to which degree of excellence ordinary painters, undowered by the divine afflatus, may attain by eminent industry) and approaches the superb – ecstatic.

'I can recollect Mrs. Winter very well, if nobody else can,' said the aged groceress.

All this hubbleshow, when me Pension was rais'd It near kit me wife, and me fairly craiz'd.