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"
She
came
over
and
touched
his
tie
and
smoothed
his
hair
.
"
Well
,
one
of
us
ought
to
be
,
for
the
good
of
the
family
,
"
he
commented
,
half
smiling
.
"
I
'm
not
so
sure
,
though
,
that
it
will
be
you
,
either
.
"
"
It
's
a
charming
day
.
See
how
nice
those
white-marble
statues
look
.
Shall
we
go
to
the
Cluny
or
Versailles
or
Fontainbleau
?
To-night
we
ought
to
see
Bernhardt
at
the
Francaise
.
"
Aileen
was
so
gay
.
It
was
so
splendid
to
be
traveling
with
her
true
husband
at
last
.
It
was
on
this
trip
that
Cowperwood
's
taste
for
art
and
life
and
his
determination
to
possess
them
revived
to
the
fullest
.
He
made
the
acquaintance
in
London
,
Paris
,
and
Brussels
of
the
important
art
dealers
.
His
conception
of
great
masters
and
the
older
schools
of
art
shaped
themselves
.
By
one
of
the
dealers
in
London
,
who
at
once
recognized
in
him
a
possible
future
patron
,
he
was
invited
with
Aileen
to
view
certain
private
collections
,
and
here
and
there
was
an
artist
,
such
as
Lord
Leighton
,
Dante
Gabriel
Rossetti
,
or
Whistler
,
to
whom
he
was
introduced
casually
,
an
interested
stranger
.
These
men
only
saw
a
strong
,
polite
,
remote
,
conservative
man
.
He
realized
the
emotional
,
egotistic
,
and
artistic
soul
.
He
felt
on
the
instant
that
there
could
be
little
in
common
between
such
men
and
himself
in
so
far
as
personal
contact
was
concerned
,
yet
there
was
mutual
ground
on
which
they
could
meet
.
He
could
not
be
a
slavish
admirer
of
anything
,
only
a
princely
patron
.
So
he
walked
and
saw
,
wondering
how
soon
his
dreams
of
grandeur
were
to
be
realized
.
In
London
he
bought
a
portrait
by
Raeburn
;
in
Paris
a
plowing
scene
by
Millet
,
a
small
Jan
Steen
,
a
battle
piece
by
Meissonier
,
and
a
romantic
courtyard
scene
by
Isabey
.
Thus
began
the
revival
of
his
former
interest
in
art
;
the
nucleus
of
that
future
collection
which
was
to
mean
so
much
to
him
in
later
years
.
On
their
return
,
the
building
of
the
new
Chicago
mansion
created
the
next
interesting
diversion
in
the
lives
of
Aileen
and
Cowperwood
.
Because
of
some
chateaux
they
saw
in
France
that
form
,
or
rather
a
modification
of
it
as
suggested
by
Taylor
Lord
,
was
adopted
.
Mr.
Lord
figured
that
it
would
take
all
of
a
year
,
perhaps
a
year
and
a
half
,
to
deliver
it
in
perfect
order
,
but
time
was
of
no
great
importance
in
this
connection
.
In
the
mean
while
they
could
strengthen
their
social
connections
and
prepare
for
that
interesting
day
when
they
should
be
of
the
Chicago
elite
.
