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"

Angry

?

nonsense

.

I

have

only

seen

her

once

before

,

for

a

couple

of

minutes

,

when

my

cousin

introduced

her

to

me

,

just

before

I

left

England

.

They

were

not

married

then

.

I

didn

’

t

know

they

were

coming

to

Rome

.

"

"

But

you

will

go

to

see

them

now

—

you

will

find

out

what

they

have

for

an

address

—

since

you

know

the

name

.

Shall

we

go

to

the

post

?

And

you

could

speak

about

the

portrait

.

"

"

Confound

you

,

Naumann

!

I

don

’

t

know

what

I

shall

do

.

I

am

not

so

brazen

as

you

.

"

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"

Bah

!

that

is

because

you

are

dilettantish

and

amateurish

.

If

you

were

an

artist

,

you

would

think

of

Mistress

Second

-

Cousin

as

antique

form

animated

by

Christian

sentiment

—

a

sort

of

Christian

Antigone

—

sensuous

force

controlled

by

spiritual

passion

.

"

"

Yes

,

and

that

your

painting

her

was

the

chief

outcome

of

her

existence

—

the

divinity

passing

into

higher

completeness

and

all

but

exhausted

in

the

act

of

covering

your

bit

of

canvas

.

I

am

amateurish

if

you

like

:

I

do

NOT

think

that

all

the

universe

is

straining

towards

the

obscure

significance

of

your

pictures

.

"

"

But

it

is

,

my

dear

!

—

so

far

as

it

is

straining

through

me

,

Adolf

Naumann

:

that

stands

firm

,

"

said

the

good

-

natured

painter

,

putting

a

hand

on

Ladislaw

’

s

shoulder

,

and

not

in

the

least

disturbed

by

the

unaccountable

touch

of

ill

-

humor

in

his

tone

.

"

See

now

!

My

existence

presupposes

the

existence

of

the

whole

universe

—

does

it

NOT

?

and

my

function

is

to

paint

—

and

as

a

painter

I

have

a

conception

which

is

altogether

genialisch

,

of

your

great

-

aunt

or

second

grandmother

as

a

subject

for

a

picture

;

therefore

,

the

universe

is

straining

towards

that

picture

through

that

particular

hook

or

claw

which

it

puts

forth

in

the

shape

of

me

—

not

true

?

"

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"

But

how

if

another

claw

in

the

shape

of

me

is

straining

to

thwart

it

?

—

the

case

is

a

little

less

simple

then

.

"

"

Not

at

all

:

the

result

of

the

struggle

is

the

same

thing

—

picture

or

no

picture

—

logically

.

"

Will

could

not

resist

this

imperturbable

temper

,

and

the

cloud

in

his

face

broke

into

sunshiny

laughter

.

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