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Title: Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Subjects: Pre-Raphaelitism Painters -- Great Britain
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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was greatlysatisfied with the evidence of true zeal in the managementof the charity, and showed his appreciation by leaving aroyal contribution behind him. The Prince set forth withhis following, and continued his journey to Jerusalem,where he was received with becoming state, and the Pashaannounced that he was commissioned by the Sultan tohand over the Hospital of St. John to the Prince forGermany. It was anciently occupied by the Templars, butsince desecrated to the ignoble purpose of a tanners yard.Miss Hoffmann was my informant of all that happened,as also of a visit to another charitable institution (Germanand Protestant this time), which formed a striking sequelto that at Bethlehem. The Prince was called upon toinspect a home for the training of young converted Jews.He expressed some impatience as he was conducted to thehouse through long, narrow, and tortuous lanes. On hisarrival his first inquiry was for a glass of cold water.When it was brought, holding it up to the light, he
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282 PRE-RAPHAELITISM AND THE chap. exclaimed to the manager, with stern military promptitude,* Do you call that smeared and dirty glass fit to drinkfrom ? Pray, pardon me, your Royal Highness, stammeredthe confused overseer, we were not apprized that yourRoyal Highnesss visit would be so early. I did not ask you, sir, if the glass was fit for 77ie, theCrown Prince, to drink from, I asked you whether it wasfit for any one to use, for nobody should be asked todrink a glass of water unfit for a prince, thundered hisvisitor. The next moment the Princes eyes made ahasty survey of the room, and he asked whether underthe bed was a fitting place for a pair of dirty jack-bootswhich lay there. Bring them out, he said. One of theattendants darted to the spot and lugged at the boots ;but the royal mandate was not so easily obeyed, for thereproved to be a pair of legs inside those boots, and to thoselower limbs a reluctant body was attached, and a faceshowing but Httle desire for a royal introduct

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