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1 II |   don't deny that you are to paint me two pictures for~nothing."~ ~"
2 II |     thousand francs. You can paint all three,--perhaps they'
3 II |      can very well afford to paint me three pictures."~ ~"True
4 III|  that verdict."~ ~"Well--you paint gray and sombre; you see
5 V  |  dignitate of the artist and paint pictures; but oh! what pictures!~
6 V  |  assuring him that he~didn't paint vegetables. This painter
7 VI | creditors) "Gracious! do~you paint such things as that?"~ ~"
8 VII|     it?"~ ~"If he would only paint the portrait of your Virginie