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wenty, by a picture hectic in color, perfect in drawing, that made Paris at his feet. He became more famous by verses, by plays, by political follies, and by social successes. He was faithful, how

lless vice; indeed, h

hed and crossed the border, riding into the green Ardennes one sunny evening. He had a name of some power and suf

ut people talk most of the Gre

monotony of the plains, then green with wheat a foot high, and musical wi

othed him. He had been swimming all his life in salt sea-fed rapids; this sluggish, dull, canal wat

its rim. It is a burgher ledger of bales and barrels, of sale and barter, of loss and gain; but in the heart of it there are illuminated leaves o

s absurd to say that you have seen Rubens, as it is to think that you have seen Murillo out of Seville, or Raffaelle out of Rome); and

em," he said to himself; "I will paint

hing with a belt of jewels about her supple waist; Phryne lying with the stones of the dead-house under her naked limbs,-but always Phryne. Phryne, who living had death in her smile; Phryne

y as Catherine and Cecilia had in the schools o

ssed? Not even if, like the artist monks of old, he

water he did

sement of an absent friend's old palace in the Brabant street that is named after Mary of Burgundy; an old casement crus

or whether he would go into the East and seek new types, and lie under the red Egyptian heavens and create a true Cleopatra, which no man has ever done yet,-young Cleopatra, ankle-deep in rose

own and followed her into the cathedral. If he could get

ated, "It is the face of Gretchen, but not the soul-the Re

he said to him

ing and of Phryne dead, believed that every daughte

towards this little rush-covered hut, he forgot the Red Mouse, and began vaguely to see t

es the bird, when the king covets the vineyard, there is only one end possible at any time. It is the strong against the weak, the fierce against the feeble, the s