The academician . ou. Will you ? Mabels eyes fell directly his voiceceased. 14+ THE ACADEMICIAN. I dont know—I must think, shemurmured. Eureka! thought Baring, and, puttingdown his brush, said— Thank you, Miss Durant. I wonttrouble you any longer to-day. Connie, who had not been able to catchany of the low-spoken dialogue betweenMr. Baring and Mabel, but who hadvaguely gathered that BariDg wantedMabel to sit to him, descended from herplatform with a slightly aggrieved air,which was entirely wasted upon both theothers. Mr. Baring took leave of Mabel witha look meant to express entreaty andadmir
The academician . ou. Will you ? Mabels eyes fell directly his voiceceased. 14+ THE ACADEMICIAN. I dont know—I must think, shemurmured. Eureka! thought Baring, and, puttingdown his brush, said— Thank you, Miss Durant. I wonttrouble you any longer to-day. Connie, who had not been able to catchany of the low-spoken dialogue betweenMr. Baring and Mabel, but who hadvaguely gathered that BariDg wantedMabel to sit to him, descended from herplatform with a slightly aggrieved air,which was entirely wasted upon both theothers. Mr. Baring took leave of Mabel witha look meant to express entreaty andadmiration, and from which he com-pletely succeeded in eliminating any signof the triumph which really possessed him. As he went back into his studio, after A HELPFUL MODEL. 145 showing the girls out, he cast a derisivelook at the easel, on which a suggestionof Connies piquant face had already ap-peared, and murmured, with his hand tohis mouth— * I can wait your own time now, MissMoore. I am not an impatient vol. t. 10
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