12th-frost | frott-seaso | seclu-yours
bold = Main text
Paragraph grey = Comment text
501 II | was tinted brown and well frotted;~each chair was furnished
502 V | words Monsieur Vervelle frowned. The worthy bourgeois~drew
503 V | studio slang a "melon." This fruit surmounted a~pumpkin, clothed
504 III | deceive you. Listen; you are fulfilling all the promises you made~
505 II | what painters call studio fun.~ ~"Well, I don't deny that
506 V | plumes of~a first-class funeral floated on an over-flowing
507 III | meals~and working like a galley-slave.~ ~One evening he went to
508 VII | stood with arms pendent, gaping mouth, and no word upon~
509 V | daylight had burst~into his garret that morning.~ ~While he
510 VI | his coat~together over the gastric region, and endeavouring,
511 III | and one~of those eccentric geniuses destined to fame and sorrow.
512 III | and~by the patience and gentleness of a lamblike nature. The
513 IV | modesty, simplicity, and genuine surprise of the good~and
514 I | Sigalon, the~"Medusa" of Gericault, the "Massacre of Scio"
515 III | far."~ ~Elie Magus made a gesture; he bit his thumbs, thinking
516 II | business~to the Trojans without getting their fair share of it.
517 VIII| them:--~ ~"The King has given me an order for the Museum
518 VII | genius, Vervelle risked giving Fougeres an invitation to
519 V | of his shirt.~ ~Fougeres glanced at Magus and said: "There'
520 VII | turned pale!"~ ~"Daughter, a glass of water! quick!" cried
521 II | for you!" cried Fougeres, gleefully.~ ~"And if you marry the
522 III | droll or fiery, or else gloomy and deeply~reflective, which
523 I | Balzac~Whenever you have gone to take a serious look at
524 IV | The cruelly simple and good-humored face of the~executioner
525 V | were tap-~rooted, and her gown was yellow with black stripes.
526 VI | charming, Virginie had such grace;~happily she didn't look
527 VI | slang term for creditors) "Gracious! do~you paint such things
528 V | Institute and obtain the grade of~officer of the Legion
529 III | snatch from Decamps and Granet~the mystery of their interior
530 VIII| father-in-law. The Vervelles and the Grassous, who~agree delightfully,
531 VIII| finished he presented~them gratuitously to his father-in-law, his
532 VIII| guests were amazed at the~gravity in which the artist proceeded,
533 III | verdict."~ ~"Well--you paint gray and sombre; you see nature
534 I | give its attention to a greater number of such works.~The
535 VIII| is considered one of the greatest artists of the period. Not~
536 II | Well, it means that the Greeks never proposed a good bit
537 VII | Some were covered with green baize curtains which were
538 IV | for~Fougeres had painted greenish tones suggestive of mildew
539 VII | black letters on a gold ground:~ ~ Rubens~Dance of fauns
540 VII | son-in-law was marched about~the grounds on the nankeen-colored paths,
541 I | since the catalogue has grown into a book, many names
542 I | crowd~nor the criticism grows impassioned about the products
543 II | Grassou,--"I, who have a habit of sleeping~alone; and get
544 III | transformations Fougeres'~habits and ways of life were tranquil
545 VI | flying. He showed his grand haggard face as he looked about
546 VI | Romans were fond of red-~haired women, and he turned Roman,
547 III | seen the twitching of the hairs of his beard, the irony
548 IV | he underwent a singular~hallucination. His neat, clean paintings,
549 III | glance, pressed Fougeres' hand.~ ~"You are a fine fellow,"
550 III | canvas,~wrapped it in a handkerchief, and brought it home, vowing
551 VI | to himself: gold was the handsomest of~metals; a tawny yellow
552 VIII| a carriage, and are the happiest people on~earth. Pierre
553 VI | Virginie had such grace;~happily she didn't look like her
554 IV | His neat, clean paintings, hard as tin and shiny as~porcelain,
555 VII | Virginie, "that he has done no harm to my~portrait? He frightened
556 IV | should be rewarded. Grassou hasn't stolen~his successes;
557 II | hundred francs when you haven't put six~sous' worth of
558 III | physiognomy~that was full of health, but wanting in action.
559 III | of Paris there~were some hearts that beat in unison with
560 III | crape veil;~your drawing is heavy, pasty; your composition
561 III | name. Plump and of medium height, he~had a dull complexion,
562 V | notary. We'll consult Cardot. Hein! Madame de~Fougeres! not
563 IV | they loved the man~who held it.~ ~"What a misfortune
564 I | Delacroix, the~"Baptism of Henri IV." by Eugene Deveria,
565 VI | shades~deeper.~ ~"Brings in, hey?" continued Joseph. "Any
566 V | swelling that was some inches high. How the feet were ever
567 Add | Cousin Pons~ ~Schinner, Hippolyte~The Purse~A Bachelor's Establishment~
568 III | dug at his pictures. He~hired several models and Magus
569 I | who, at the present moment holds a place, as the~saying is, "
570 V | artists were~baskets with holes in them."~ ~"Who is your
571 Add | Establishment~A Start in Life~Honorine~Cousin Betty~Beatrix~ ~Magus,
572 V | the superlative of his hopes--do~you know what it was?
573 II | they used to say, 'Take my horse.' Now we say, 'Take my bear.'~
574 VIII| proceeded, in company with the host, to~examine each picture.~ ~"
575 III | men suffer when they are~hounded by poverty and hunted like
576 VII | Pierre Grassou~for seven hours. After dinner, the length
577 V | francs of expectations, a house in the rue~Boucherat, and
578 IV | most~rigid economy, his household being managed solely by
579 II | one of those tall, narrow houses which resemble the obelisk
580 V | The mother and daughter hovered about the easel, marvelling
581 IV | dust on the stone-floor,--a huge blunder, by the way, for~
582 Add | in other stories of the Human Comedy.~Bridau, Joseph~The
583 III | are~hounded by poverty and hunted like wild beasts by the
584 IV | friends for rectitude of~ideas, for steadiness of sentiment,
585 VII | merchants."~ ~This form of idolatry, which stroked his innocent
586 II | II~In 1832, Fougeres lived
587 III | III~When a pupil, Fougeres had
588 VII | opening of the picture gallery~illuminated by lamps, the reflections
589 Add | Clerks~Modeste Mignon~The Imaginary Mistress~The Unconscious
590 III | t~hear the music; he was imagining pictures, he was painting.
591 IV | you die by inches; copy,~imitate, and you'll live. After
592 III | Lesson of Anatomy."~ ~"Still imitating!" said Schinner. "Ah! Fougeres
593 III | these pictures a servile~imitation of Dutch landscapes and
594 VIII| the misty and aged look imparted to his pictures in~Elie'
595 II | which to put~away the studio implements, a table for breakfast,
596 V | laid by would give him the~imposing income of two thousand francs,
597 VI | Vervelle family. He found it impossible~to stay peacefully in his
598 V | pumpkin~advanced on turnips, improperly called legs. A true painter
599 V | would give him the~imposing income of two thousand francs,
600 I | more the number of artists increases, the more careful and~exacting
601 V | of devising any means of~increasing his little fortune, he carried,
602 VIII| Museum of Versailles felt it incumbent to~order a battle-piece
603 VII | portrait.~ ~"Here, follow these indications," said Bridau, returning
604 V | your notary--if it is not indiscreet to ask?" said Madame~Vervelle.~ ~"
605 IV | principle of election applied indiscriminately is~false, and France will
606 I | applicable to many other individuals of the tribe~of artists.~~
607 VI | residences; there was to them an~inexplicable attraction in this clean,
608 I | remained within fixed limits of~inflexible proportions, where each
609 II | who had upon his life the~influence such men have on the lives
610 IV | and Pierre could obtain no information on this~phenomenon. He fancied
611 III | of twenty-seven had the~innocence of a lad of sixteen. Another
612 IV | Switzerland in search of inspiration. This detestable artist
613 IV | Fougeres had simply been~inspired by the masterpiece of Gerard
614 IV | them, and his advice was instinct with a spirit~of justice
615 V | what it was? To enter the Institute and obtain the grade of~
616 I | excellence~of the former institution. Now, instead of a tournament,
617 VII | The physician van Tromp~instructing his pupils.~ ~In all, there
618 II | who~was called Elie Magus, interrupted himself to laugh an uncanny
619 V | Vervelle family became almost intimate~with the worthy artist.
620 I | this sketch of his life is introduced,--~reflections that are
621 IV | mediocrities to whom are intrusted in these~days the election
622 VII | who~was stupefied by the invasion of this ferocious animal,
623 IV | and life. Be original, invent, and you die by inches;
624 III | sketches by~lamp-light. He invented thirty pictures, all reminiscence,
625 V | three thousand francs he invested them in some~first mortgage,
626 V | amuse myself. My notary invests my money; he knows what
627 VII | a~number of other guests invited to be present at this ovation
628 III | hairs of his beard, the irony of his~moustache, and the
629 V | Well, well! if that isn't a joke!" exclaimed Vervelle. "
630 V | up his hair, buttoned his jacket of bottle-green velveteen,
631 V | said~the father, assuming a jaunty air.~ ~"Yes, monsieur,"
632 Add | Department~A Man of Business~Jealousies of a Country Town~The Middle
633 I | celebrated~artists accused of jealousy, showed the world, in spite
634 III | that~furnished matter of jesting to the various ateliers
635 V | Well, well! if that isn't a joke!" exclaimed Vervelle. "Cardot
636 I | there is no longer anything judged. But whatever~artists may
637 I | genius neglected! Where judgment no~longer exists, there
638 I | among three thousand others, jumbled together~in six galleries.~ ~
639 IV | instinct with a spirit~of justice that made the justness of
640 IV | of justice that made the justness of his remarks acceptable.
641 V | finished picture! chouette, Koxnoff, chocnosoff!~His future,
642 IV | The clergy told Madame la Dauphine that the~subject
643 VII | magnificently framed, each bore labels on which was read~in black
644 V | an over-flowing bonnet; laces adorned~her shoulders, as
645 III | the qualities which you lack."~ ~While detailing these
646 VII | undrawn in presence of young ladies.~ ~Pierre Grassou stood
647 III | patience and gentleness of a lamblike nature. The masters,~however,
648 III | home to make sketches by~lamp-light. He invented thirty pictures,
649 VII | picture gallery~illuminated by lamps, the reflections of which
650 V | Grassou~accompanied him to the landing.~ ~"There's no one but you
651 VII | commanding a noble~view of the landscape. Marry Virginie, and have
652 V | with reddish~spots upon it, large innocent eyes, and white
653 V | innocent eyes, and white lashes, scarcely any~brows, a leghorn
654 | later
655 II | said Fougeres. "Do you know Latin?"~ ~"No."~ ~"Well, it means
656 VII | brushed~and combed, and the lawns had just been mown. The
657 VIII| what you will of him, he lays by twenty thousand francs
658 IV | these~days the election of leaders in all social classes; who
659 VII | painter, going on with~his lecture. "Mademoiselle is red-haired.
660 VII | the button of his coat and led him to a~corner on pretence
661 V | lashes, scarcely any~brows, a leghorn bonnet bound with white
662 VII | hours. After dinner, the length of which equalled its~magnificence,
663 III | several models and Magus lent him stuffs.~ ~After two
664 I | I~Dedication~To the Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, Periollas,~
665 II | prepared his palette,~and lighted his stove, was eating a
666 VI | casting everywhere the lightning of his glance; then he walked
667 | likely
668 V | who are going to take our likenesses?" said~the father, assuming
669 I | have remained within fixed limits of~inflexible proportions,
670 VI | crew!"~ ~"I'll write you a line for my notary."~ ~"Have
671 VI | shaved and put on~clean linen; he had also arranged his
672 VII | mouth, and no word upon~his lips as he recognized half his
673 III | I must~not deceive you. Listen; you are fulfilling all
674 IV | difference, however, between literary~critics and Fougeres; he
675 III | Fling yourself into literature."~~
676 IV | copy,~imitate, and you'll live. After this discovery of
677 VI | Joseph. "Any shot in your locker?"~ ~"How much do you want?"~ ~"
678 II | with that the old Dutch log of wood who passed for a
679 IV | nothing; neither did he lose,~thanks to his sober living.
680 VIII| required of him.~ ~Far from losing the esteem of his admiring
681 I | character of the Salon was lost as soon as it spread along~
682 VIII| thousand~francs the whole lot."~ ~"Prove it to me," said
683 V | reflections.~ ~"You must earn lots of money; but of course
684 VII | idea of competing with King Louis-~Philippe and the galleries
685 III | approached the dealer's shop in a lounging manner. The Jew was at his~
686 VII | Won't that country lout spoilt it?"~ ~"If he would
687 IV | esteem for his palette, they loved the man~who held it.~ ~"
688 VII | that heart~of gold, that loyal soul, that stupid draughtsman,
689 IV | absolute kindliness, and great~loyalty; though they had no esteem
690 II | resemble the obelisk of Luxor,~and possess an alley, a
691 II | out with it!"~ ~"Well, I'm prepared to bring you a
692 II | does not~need the immense machinery and outfit which ruin historical
693 VII | length of which equalled its~magnificence, Monsieur and Madame Vervelle
694 VII | Versailles.~ ~The pictures, magnificently framed, each bore labels
695 V | wife had a fine veneer of mahogany on her~face, and in figure
696 I | populace of artists who~have maintained themselves in it.~ ~In other
697 VIII| Legion of honor. He is a major~in the National Guard. The
698 | makes
699 VI | short, he was incapable of making a woman unhappy. This last
700 III | Schinner. "Ah! Fougeres can't manage to be~original."~ ~"You
701 VII | cooking. All things~about the mansion seemed to say:~ ~"We have
702 IV | thirty-seven Fougeres had manufactured for Elie~Magus some two
703 V | certain things. When you are married--well, till then, keep quiet."~ ~
704 VII | pleasantly named "Saint Martin's summer" was~just beginning.
705 V | hovered about the easel, marvelling at~all his preparations;
706 I | selection we have a chaotic mass. What is the~result? A great
707 I | Medusa" of Gericault, the "Massacre of Scio" by Delacroix, the~"
708 III | color-merchant (formerly of Mayenne and a~distant connection
709 IV | On a wretched~table was a meal, untouched. The light came
710 III | upon it,--eating mouse's meals~and working like a galley-slave.~ ~
711 VII | through his park, the~daughter meandered like an eel, the mother
712 VIII| painter, who now saw~the meaning of the misty and aged look
713 III | resembled his name. Plump and of medium height, he~had a dull complexion,
714 III | pasty; your composition is a medley of Greuze,~who only redeemed
715 I | and that of Sigalon, the~"Medusa" of Gericault, the "Massacre
716 VIII| thereupon walked~about Paris to meet his old comrades and have
717 II | frost on his windows had melted sufficiently to let the
718 Add | Brides~Cousin Betty~The Member for Arcis~ ~Cardot (Parisian
719 VI | third sitting pere Vervelle mentioned a fine gallery of~pictures
720 II | painter. He fancied he heard Mephistopheles~talking marriage.~ ~"Portraits
721 VII | the bore of dining with~mere merchants."~ ~This form
722 II | apartment. Fougeres, being merely a genre painter, does not~
723 III | schoolboy~protecting a woman. He met Joseph Bridau, one of his
724 VI | gold was the handsomest of~metals; a tawny yellow represented
725 IV | good fortune of men who are methodical--if Grassou, belated with
726 IV | greenish tones suggestive of mildew along the~base of the walls. "
727 II | will give an idea of the mildness and wit with which~Fougeres
728 III | the pack of~commonplace minds and by troops of vanities
729 IV | not yet decorated.) The minister of the Interior ordered
730 IV | to the exchequer of the~ministry, accustomed to a different
731 VIII| more aggressive and more mischievous than~that of Pierre Grassou,
732 IV | man~who held it.~ ~"What a misfortune it is that Fougeres has
733 | miss
734 VIII| Pierre Grassou, who never misses exhibiting at the~Salon,
735 IV | were covered with a sort of mist; they looked like old~daubs.
736 III | great painter~Schinner was mistaken after all! In that immense
737 Add | Modeste Mignon~The Imaginary Mistress~The Unconscious Humorists~ ~
738 VIII| now saw~the meaning of the misty and aged look imparted to
739 V | proudly~exhibited unutterable mittens on a puffy pair of hands;
740 I | a tournament, we have a~mob; instead of a noble exhibition,
741 III | pictures. He~hired several models and Magus lent him stuffs.~ ~
742 VII | the year. The painter went modestly by public conveyance, and
743 II | At the beginning of the month of December of that year,
744 II | studio, looking over to Montmartre. This studio was painted
745 III | of life were tranquil and moral to a degree that~furnished
746 | moreover
747 IV | of the "chauffeurs," of Mortagne. A crowd~collected every
748 V | invested them in some~first mortgage, the interest of which he
749 VIII| to his father-in-law, his mother-in-law and his~wife.~ ~At the present
750 VI | to~button it, the button mould having escaped from its
751 IV | an excellent citizen; he mounted guard duly, went to reviews,
752 III | months upon it,--eating mouse's meals~and working like
753 III | beard, the irony of his~moustache, and the movement of his
754 VII | the lawns had just been mown. The pure country air~wafted
755 VII | pretence of looking at a Murillo. Spanish pictures were then~
756 Add | Cardot (Parisian notary)~The Muse of the Department~A Man
757 III | ballet, didn't~hear the music; he was imagining pictures,
758 | myself
759 III | from Decamps and Granet~the mystery of their interior effects.
760 V | Madame de~Fougeres! not a bad name--doesn't look like a bad
761 | namely
762 VII | about~the grounds on the nankeen-colored paths, all raked as they
763 IV | was being cut around the nape of the neck. On one~side
764 II | floor of~one of those tall, narrow houses which resemble the
765 VIII| honor. He is a major~in the National Guard. The Museum of Versailles
766 III | self-love to which~strong natures give themselves up, and
767 IV | through the bars of a~window near the ceiling. It was a picture
768 II | necessary to a painter, neatly~arranged and very clean.
769 IV | cut around the nape of the neck. On one~side was a priest,
770 II | genre painter, does not~need the immense machinery and
771 I | whole talk is of genius neglected! Where judgment no~longer
772 VII | with the~utmost care. Three neighbours, also retired merchants,
773 VII | With the timidity of a neophyte in presence of a man~of
774 | Nevertheless
775 IV | and in equal numbers.~The newspapers, it is true, did not spare
776 III | smacked of mediocrity. His nickname "Fougeres" (that of the
777 VI | one-half of all happiness. That~night when he went to bed the
778 III | early, put on your cotton~night-cap, and be in bed by nine o'
779 | nine
780 | nor
781 II | changing light from the north flooded with its cold clear
782 III | black hair, a turned-up nose,~rather wide mouth, and
783 VII | country air~wafted to the nostrils a most enticing smell of
784 V | in them."~ ~"Who is your notary--if it is not indiscreet
785 III | surly artists, would have noticed the diabolical look on Elie'
786 IV | great talents, and in equal numbers.~The newspapers, it is true,
787 III | s, bravely ate bread and~nuts, or bread and milk, or bread
788 VII | Rubens~Dance of fauns and nymphs~ ~ Rembrandt~Interior of
789 II | houses which resemble the obelisk of Luxor,~and possess an
790 VIII| anonymously benevolent and~truly obliging.~ ~~ ~
791 I | still remain in their native obscurity, in spite~of the ten or
792 III | simply by~the fact of an obstinacy which constitutes the Breton
793 VIII| a creditable part on the occasion of the riots of May~12th
794 VI | He made a~series of the oddest reasonings to himself: gold
795 III | Elie Magus, to whom Pierre offered his first~picture, eyed
796 III | early go to~some government office, ask for a place, and give
797 IV | he had painted the cold, official figure of the sheriff's
798 V | Decorated--thirty-seven years old--an artist who gets orders--
799 II | fair share of it. In the olden~time they used to say, '
800 VI | ugliness remains! Money is one-half of all happiness. That~night
801 VII | theatrical effect,--the opening of the picture gallery~illuminated
802 III | pocket,~took Fougeres to the Opera. But Fougeres didn't see
803 VII | all curious to~hear his opinion of the famous collection
804 III | corner of the boulevard opposite to Elie's~shop, whence his
805 VII | Vervelle, who was~fond of oppressing them with the fabulous value
806 VII | genius had ruffled up these orderly bourgeois.~ ~The phase of
807 V | old--an artist who gets orders--puts~his money with our
808 VI | apparition, passed from its ordinary red to a cherry-red, two
809 III | distant connection of the Orgemonts) made himself a painter
810 VII | Elie Magus?"~ ~"Yes, all originals."~ ~"Between ourselves,
811 IV | enthusiastic over him. The Duc d'Orleans asked the~price of the picture.
812 VI | said Madame Vervelle,~ostentatiously. "He has over one hundred
813 V | francs, to allow himself the otium cum~dignitate of the artist
814 | ourselves
815 II | the immense machinery and outfit which ruin historical painters;~
816 VII | invited to be present at this ovation to a~great artist followed
817 I | sight of those long and over-crowded~galleries? Since 1830, the
818 V | first-class funeral floated on an over-flowing bonnet; laces adorned~her
819 V | of this separation, she overheard the following words, which
820 IV | principle to which~society owes the wretched mediocrities
821 III | like wild beasts by the pack of~commonplace minds and
822 VII | the matter? You've turned pale!"~ ~"Daughter, a glass of
823 I | that young and vigorous palettes existed, no such~complaint
824 IV | for the dying woman--same~pallor, same glance, same appeal
825 Add | Member for Arcis~ ~Cardot (Parisian notary)~The Muse of the
826 II | and very clean. The stove participated in this Dutch~cleanliness,
827 IV | compose and execute~quite passable work. He did as well as
828 III | notice from the eyes of the passers along the street. At the
829 VIII| exhibiting at the~Salon, passes in bourgeois regions for
830 III | and long ears. His gentle, passive, and resigned~air gave a
831 III | your drawing is heavy, pasty; your composition is a medley
832 III | Then, disgusted with such patching, he carried the~picture
833 VII | grounds on the nankeen-colored paths, all raked as they should
834 IV | canvas; even Charles X.~paused to look at it. "Madame,"
835 VII | tell me what he made you pay for those I shall~point
836 V | and added to the~quarterly payments made to him by Fougeres.
837 VI | found it impossible~to stay peacefully in his studio, so he took
838 IV | of honor to this son of a peasant who had fought~for the royal
839 VII | Grassou stood with arms pendent, gaping mouth, and no word
840 V | form of the cocoa-nut was perfect. Her feet, of a kind that~
841 VI | cheeks with pink tones like a~perfumer's sign."~~~~
842 VIII| greatest artists of the period. Not~a family portrait is
843 II | bourgeois of Paris conceive, periodically, the burlesque~idea of perpetuating
844 I | Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery, Periollas,~As a Testimony of the Affectionate
845 I | without the Salon art may perish.~ ~Ever since the catalogue
846 II | periodically, the burlesque~idea of perpetuating their forms and figures
847 VIII| Fougeres (for so the family persisted in calling Pierre Grassou)~
848 IV | persons, touched by the persistent energy of~a man whom nothing
849 Add | Addendum~The following personages appear in other stories
850 VII | orderly bourgeois.~ ~The phase of autumn so pleasantly
851 IV | obtain no information on this~phenomenon. He fancied something was
852 VII | competing with King Louis-~Philippe and the galleries of Versailles.~ ~
853 VII | of a dissecting room. The physician van Tromp~instructing his
854 III | these leading features of a physiognomy~that was full of health,
855 III | of various dimensions; he piled up bread and cheese on his
856 VIII| celebrated artists who are pinched for means, and he substitutes
857 VI | you still make cheeks with pink tones like a~perfumer's
858 II | more correctly, a square pit or well. Above~the three
859 V | in around the waist. She pivoted on her legs, which were
860 IV | dominated the group. This plagiarism, very~cleverly disguised,
861 VII | how~little attraction a plain bourgeois family could offer
862 IV | trips about France, and he planned to~go to Switzerland in
863 III | that of the painter in~the play of "The Eglantine") was
864 VII | The phase of autumn so pleasantly named "Saint Martin's summer"
865 V | This~visible admiration pleased Fougeres. The golden calf
866 VI | also arranged his hair in a pleasing manner, and~chosen a very
867 V | puffy pair of hands; the plumes of~a first-class funeral
868 III | Fougeres resembled his name. Plump and of medium height, he~
869 III | expression, a few sous in his pocket,~took Fougeres to the Opera.
870 VI | red leather slippers with~pointed toes. The family replied
871 I | assault,--this time by a populace of artists who~have maintained
872 IV | hard as tin and shiny as~porcelain, were covered with a sort
873 III | atelier, to acquire that portion of the~art of painting which
874 VIII| bourgeois regions for a fine portrait-painter. He~earns some twenty thousand
875 II | Salon; I might go in for~portrait-painting. Well, yes!"~ ~Old Elie
876 II | to bring them?"~ ~"Three portraits--I could put them in the
877 V | that morning.~ ~While he posed the father of the young
878 IV | all~three occupied a great position and were, in fact, at the
879 II | the obelisk of Luxor,~and possess an alley, a dark little
880 IV | with angelic patience.~ ~Possessing, by this time, fifteen thousand
881 VI | had spoken in the highest praise of the painter. Pierre Grassou~
882 I | less to their fame than the~praises and fanaticism of their
883 V | said the painter.~ ~"Do pray hold still, Antenor," said
884 V | easel, marvelling at~all his preparations; they evidently thought
885 IV | toward the window, instead of presenting it full~front. The condemned
886 I | examination and selection which presents their works to the admiration~
887 III | Schinner, after a glance, pressed Fougeres' hand.~ ~"You are
888 VII | and led him to a~corner on pretence of looking at a Murillo.
889 VII | butter it well in. Do you pretend to have more sense than~
890 II | You artists have such~pretensions! You talk of two hundred
891 VI | attraction in this clean, neat, pretty, and artistic~abode. Abyssus
892 III | honest face an expression of pride. He was like a schoolboy~
893 IV | neck. On one~side was a priest, on the other two women,
894 IV | represented a young man in~prison, whose hair was being cut
895 IV | all social classes; who proceed,~naturally, to elect themselves
896 VIII| gravity in which the artist proceeded, in company with the host,
897 II | and what effect would be produced upon him by the Sieur and~
898 I | grows impassioned about the products of that bazaar.~Forced to
899 III | you are fulfilling all the promises you made~in the studios.
900 V | fortunate moment when his property thus laid by would give
901 I | fixed limits of~inflexible proportions, where each distinct specialty
902 II | means that the Greeks never proposed a good bit of business~to
903 II | know to what extend this proposition would act upon the~painter,
904 VII | indeed a day of triumph. The prospective son-in-law was marched about~
905 III | He was like a schoolboy~protecting a woman. He met Joseph Bridau,
906 V | with black stripes. She proudly~exhibited unutterable mittens
907 VIII| francs the whole lot."~ ~"Prove it to me," said the bottle-dealer, "
908 Add | Establishment~A Distinguished Provincial at Paris~A Start in Life~
909 III | with water, he laid in a provision of wood for his~stove; then,
910 IV | reviews, and paid~his rent and provision-bills with bourgeois punctuality.~~
911 V | tintinnabulating baubles. The melon puffed like a walrus; the pumpkin~
912 V | unutterable mittens on a puffy pair of hands; the plumes
913 VI | returned abruptly to Grassou, pulling his coat~together over the
914 IV | up~mediocrities as envy pulls down great talents, and
915 III | III~When a pupil, Fougeres had studied drawing
916 VII | van Tromp~instructing his pupils.~ ~In all, there were one
917 V | artist who gets orders--puts~his money with our notary.
918 III | redeemed his defects by the qualities which you lack."~ ~While
919 VII | Daughter, a glass of water! quick!" cried Madame Vervelle.
920 III | assassination. Fougeres quietly fetched his canvas,~wrapped
921 VII | Spanish pictures were then~the rage.~ ~"You bought your pictures
922 IV | head like a sheep when it rains. Then he asked~and obtained
923 VII | nankeen-colored paths, all raked as they should be~for the
924 III | middle of the evening, and ran home to make sketches by~
925 III | were all~discreet; at any rate Pierre discovered none of
926 II | I don't ask it. But you're an honest~man."~ ~"Come,
927 V | Schinner and Leon~de Lora, to reach the Academy before Bridau,
928 VII | bore labels on which was read~in black letters on a gold
929 IV | tears. A sheriff's clerk was reading aloud a document. On a wretched~
930 VIII| hundred francs. The great reason which the bourgeois~families
931 VI | made a~series of the oddest reasonings to himself: gold was the
932 III | Dutch-Flemish-Belgian,~had three reasons for being what he became,--
933 IV | immense success, for it~recalled the affair of the "chauffeurs,"
934 IV | silenced all envy and all recriminations. Besides,~he had on his
935 IV | was dear to friends for rectitude of~ideas, for steadiness
936 VI | the Romans were fond of red-~haired women, and he turned
937 V | a fairly white skin with reddish~spots upon it, large innocent
938 III | medley of Greuze,~who only redeemed his defects by the qualities
939 I | The Torture," would have redounded far~more to his credit if
940 III | or else gloomy and deeply~reflective, which argue future talent.
941 III | old Magus in his arms; he regarded him~as a father. He went
942 VI | together over the gastric region, and endeavouring, but in
943 VIII| Salon, passes in bourgeois regions for a fine portrait-painter.
944 III | Bonne-Nouvelle. Fougeres, who~relied on his palette to go to
945 III | resigned~air gave a certain relief to these leading features
946 IV | truth, a~most satisfying religious tone about it. Monseigneur
947 VII | ll find good wines, and I rely on my collection of~pictures
948 I | appeared in it which still remain in their native obscurity,
949 I | galleries. The Salon should have remained within fixed limits of~inflexible
950 VI | Beauty~fades,--but ugliness remains! Money is one-half of all
951 VI | woman unhappy. This last remark~had enormous weight in the
952 IV | made the justness of his remarks acceptable. After the~revolution
953 III | invented thirty pictures, all reminiscence, and felt~himself a man
954 IV | to reviews, and paid~his rent and provision-bills with
955 VII | vehemently.~ ~Hearing that reply the bourgeois beat a quiet
956 VIII| subjects the picture-dealer had~required of him.~ ~Far from losing
957 II | tall, narrow houses which resemble the obelisk of Luxor,~and
958 VI | consider as one of their residences; there was to them an~inexplicable
959 V | which bespoke in them a respectable~enthusiasm for Art.~ ~"So
960 I | chaotic mass. What is the~result? A great artist is swamped.
961 V | merchant; but before a merchant retires from business~one can never
962 IV | certain useful advice, and retouched his pictures before~taking
963 VII | the bourgeois beat a quiet retreat to his wife, who~was stupefied
964 III | Fougeres had not the heart to return to the boulevard. He set
965 VII | indications," said Bridau, returning the palette,~and taking
966 IV | mounted guard duly, went to reviews, and paid~his rent and provision-bills
967 IV | Perseverance in the arts should be rewarded. Grassou hasn't stolen~his
968 III | for being what he became,--rich and avaricious.~Coming last
969 IV | He lived with the most~rigid economy, his household being
970 VIII| part on the occasion of the riots of May~12th he was appointed
971 II | Pierre Grassou, who had risen early, prepared his palette,~
972 VII | man~of genius, Vervelle risked giving Fougeres an invitation
973 III | The two masters were not~robbed. Finally Fougeres ended
974 II | his stove, was eating a roll steeped in milk, and waiting~
975 VI | yellow represented gold; the Romans were fond of red-~haired
976 VII | Interior of a dissecting room. The physician van Tromp~
977 II | Above~the three or four rooms occupied by Grassou of Fougeres
978 V | her legs, which were tap-~rooted, and her gown was yellow
979 V | that~painters call abatis, rose above the varnished leather
980 V | before Bridau, to wear a rosette in his~buttonhole! What
981 IV | peasant who had fought~for the royal cause in 1799. (Joseph Bridau,
982 VII | worthy fellow,~decorated by royalty itself with the Legion of
983 V | the staircase, Fougeres rubbed~up his hair, buttoned his
984 VII | The ways of genius had ruffled up these orderly bourgeois.~ ~
985 II | machinery and outfit which ruin historical painters;~he
986 V | set my~teeth on edge."~ ~"Safe from want for the rest of
987 VII | autumn so pleasantly named "Saint Martin's summer" was~just
988 III | shoulders which betrayed the~satisfaction of Walter Scott's Jew in
989 Add | Establishment~A Start in Life~Albert Savarus~The Government Clerks~Modeste
990 VI | poverty were over; he now~saved about ten thousand francs
991 VI | had enormous weight in the scales. Vervelle's friends now
992 V | eyes, and white lashes, scarcely any~brows, a leghorn bonnet
993 VII | continued, "want emotions, great scenes, and witty~talk; but you'
994 III | that master. Master and scholars were all~discreet; at any
995 III | of pride. He was like a schoolboy~protecting a woman. He met
996 I | Gericault, the "Massacre of Scio" by Delacroix, the~"Baptism
997 III | the~satisfaction of Walter Scott's Jew in swindling a Christian.~ ~
998 I | the exhibition of~works of sculpture and painting, such as it
999 II | December of that year, a season at~which the bourgeois of
1000 III | cheese,~according to the seasons. Elie Magus, to whom Pierre
|