The academician . N. 69 time to utter a word, she had turned backand was announcing joyfully— Just think ! Mr. Baring has asked meto sit to him ! And he is going to putpoor little Me into a real picture ! Her three elders received the news eachin a different way. Hubert was pleasedthat Mr. Baring should admire his sister;Mrs. Chesham wondered nervously whetherGreorge would quite approve; and Mabelnearly laughed as she saw Connies looksof delight, and reflected how very unlikeher friends her own reception of a similarhonour had been. As Mr. Baring shook hands with hera minute later, he looked s
The academician . N. 69 time to utter a word, she had turned backand was announcing joyfully— Just think ! Mr. Baring has asked meto sit to him ! And he is going to putpoor little Me into a real picture ! Her three elders received the news eachin a different way. Hubert was pleasedthat Mr. Baring should admire his sister;Mrs. Chesham wondered nervously whetherGreorge would quite approve; and Mabelnearly laughed as she saw Connies looksof delight, and reflected how very unlikeher friends her own reception of a similarhonour had been. As Mr. Baring shook hands with hera minute later, he looked straight into hereves with a gleam of cynical amuse-ment in his own. He thought that shewas really as eager to sit as Connie, andthat, by asking Connie, and taking no JO THE ACADEMICIAN. further notice of her, he would arouse afeeling of pique, which would soon bringher to do as he asked. Mr. Baring wasa very clever artist, but one needs tobe something more before one can readcorrectly the signs of a womans CHAPTER III. CONTRASTS. After saying good-bye to Mrs. Chesham,and fixing the Friday following for hervisit to the studio with the girls, made his way quietly home. Itwas a somewhat long distance to his house,but he was a capital walker, and preferredhis own feet to any more costly mode oftravelling. His house, built by himselfwithin the last six years of his prosperity,stood in a fashionable quarter for artists,and was one of the handsomest amongmany handsome others. Its walls were 72 THE ACADEMICIAN. of the true old red brick, which seemsto have so completely given way, in theselatter days, to a much brighter and lessrestful colour. Mr. Baring had takenimmense trouble to procure these dark-redbricks, which were the envy of his neigh-bours and the delight of his own did the inside of the walls belie thecomfortable look of their exterior. Every-thing that modern art and skill, combinedwith an instinctive sense of fitness, couldfurnish forth, was ther
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