48

each of them we seem able to divine what its owner is likely to do next.

p 94-95

"All actions are alike natural and indifferent to man and beast..." Milwood - the London Merchant

p 102

While he deplored its ugly manifestations, he never learned to hate life; and, always far stronger than the impulse to condemn, was his constant desire to absorb and transform, to seize the rough material the experience offered and reproduce it, on the plane of art, in a more durable and more compact shape.

Nothing was alien to this passionate observer -- old clothes, crumbling walls haggard faces with gap- toothed grins, fine ruffles and delicate draperies, smoky or sunny skies spread above the city roofs, the glitter of steel, the gleam of silver or the dull shine of a pewter dish.

49

But, although his appetite for life was omnivorous - and there are occasions when he seems to have treated Man and his environment as part of the same engrossing spectacle - it has not blunted his sensitiveness to the subtle qualities of the human spirit.

p 159-160

Everything in his pictures has life and motion in it. Not only does the business of the scene never stand still, but every feature and muscle is put into full play: the exact feeling of the moment is brought out, and carried to its utmost height ... the expression is always taken en passant, in a state of progress or change, and, as it were, at the salient point.

p 178

An acute sense of time distinguishes the