Whistler as I knew him . MAUDE, SEATEDSecond state, face redrawn THE MAN 51 triumphantly, look at that: I painted it! It ismy revenge! Every day for the last fortnight I havebeen worried by my landlady, who declares that adisturbance is kept up in my room until three or fouroclock in the morning. The day before, this ex-traordinary person told Whistler, she had been soannoying and crotchety that he, as a revenge, hadbeen angling for her favourite goldfish which sportedin a bowl outside her window just beneath his own. She opens the window every morning, he said,and calls the f
Whistler as I knew him . MAUDE, SEATEDSecond state, face redrawn THE MAN 51 triumphantly, look at that: I painted it! It ismy revenge! Every day for the last fortnight I havebeen worried by my landlady, who declares that adisturbance is kept up in my room until three or fouroclock in the morning. The day before, this ex-traordinary person told Whistler, she had been soannoying and crotchety that he, as a revenge, hadbeen angling for her favourite goldfish which sportedin a bowl outside her window just beneath his own. She opens the window every morning, he said,and calls the fish by names, — Rose, Rose, Rose;Fanny, Fanny, Fanny, — and then she throws thembread. Now, this afternoon I have spent some hoursand with great trouble have fished every one ofthose creatures up here, fried them, and let themdown again into the bowl. I look forward to seeingher expression to-morrow morning when she opensher window and calls for Fanny and Rose and findsthem fried. The table, Whistler said, was laid, for a poorpainter, very sumptuously, and with all manner
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