Crossword-Solution: MAHLSTICK 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 20

But now I must hurry or I shall miss my train.” When his sister was gone Robert went up to his studio, and having ground some colours upon his palette he stood for some time, brush and mahlstick in hand, in front of his big bare canvas.

She had laid down her brush, and the young man was using her mahlstick in a badly-directed effort to smear into a design some splotches of paint on the unused portion of her canvas.

But whenever he gave his attention to the mahlstick, her eyes sought his countenance with a look which was almost scrutiny.

Each day my lady would dress herself with the greatest care in the flowered satin and coax the stray curl into position, and each day Adam would go through the ceremony of receiving her at the door with his mahlstick held before him like a staff of state.

But, by all the saints, I do not see how I am to set about spoiling the game of your enemies." As he said this Salvator, who up to this point had been working away at a picture without interrupting himself, laid his brushes, palette and mahlstick down, got up from his easel, and, folding his arms across his breast, strode 'several times up and down, whilst Antonio, in deepest thought, contemplated the floor with fixed glance.