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Show T Compllnent That Touched. When Sir Joshua Reynolds was painting the portrait of Mrs. Billing-ton Billing-ton (on entrancing singer in her day) in tho charn'ter of St. Cecelia listening listen-ing to the celestial music on high, sho took with nor the great .composer, Haydn, and bbowed him the picture. "It Is llko," tcld Haydn, "but there Is a strange misir-ko." "What Is that?" h"tlly askod Reynolds. "You have painted her Uotenlng to the angels; you ought, to have painted the angels listening to her." "Mrs. Bllllngton sprang up and threw her arms around my neck," s'ed Haydn. What woman wom-an with a Boul In her would not, and have clinched it with a hearty hug? |