About Paris . aid,flushing with proper pride and pleasure, andone has just gone to the Worlds Fair, and an-other has received an honorable mention atMunich. Thats pretty good for my first year,is it not ? And Im only twenty-five years oldnow, he added, with his eyes smiling into thefuture at the great things he was to do. No-body could resist the contagion of his enthusi-asm and earnestness of purpose. He was painting the portrait of some richmans daughter at the time, and her family tooka patronizing interest in him, and said it was apity that he did not go out more into societyand get commis
About Paris . aid,flushing with proper pride and pleasure, andone has just gone to the Worlds Fair, and an-other has received an honorable mention atMunich. Thats pretty good for my first year,is it not ? And Im only twenty-five years oldnow, he added, with his eyes smiling into thefuture at the great things he was to do. No-body could resist the contagion of his enthusi-asm and earnestness of purpose. He was painting the portrait of some richmans daughter at the time, and her family tooka patronizing interest in him, and said it was apity that he did not go out more into societyand get commissions. They asked me to tellhim to be more careful about his dress, and tosuggest to him not to wear a high hat with asack-coat. I told them to leave him alone, andnot to worry about his clothes, or to suggest hisrunning atter people who had pretty daughtersand money enough to have them painted. Thesepeople would run after him soon enough, if hewent on as he had begun. When I saw him on the boulevards the next.
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