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THE PORTRAIT. 323
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air of admirable have heard carelessness the news considering about Mr * . the Cleveland fever I . ' was in , ' I
suppose " What you news ? " exclaimed the patron of art . " " Ah Read this , and is you news will " soon said know the reader , " I replied as he . rubbed his hands
with deli , ght at the prospect , of giving Waddington , " a surprise . " friends Nothing what charmed lie called Mr . " Martyn agreeable more surprises than . being " I alleged able to he give racked his
his brain to invent them . " All owing to you , my dear Miss Lindores ; all owing to you , else he never would have given me the
hi picture hly , my " he wife continued esteems with the increased original . warmth Oh , depend . < c He upon is aware it that how is
wh g y he permits us to have it . " _"No , " I replied , _"it is because you have always shown such
interest in the success of the artist , that he confides it to your care . I have nothing * to do in the affair . "
at " me I tell archl you tc what Did , " I said not know the pleased that Clevelan friend of d is the engaged painter to , looking a lady
y , in Florence , I should But Arthur say—ah Cleveland , well , never is a mind man of what strict I should honor say and , can
you wh as Mr at if ever . to Mart guess impress engagement yn . laid me marked with he makes emp a due hasis he sense will on the of ke last ep the . " part artist of 's the " honorable sentence , ,
principles . " I felt a rush of blood to my heart , and then to my headas this " new fact" was urged upon me .
, CHAPTER VIII .
_" Alady in Florence , a lady in Florence , " kept re-echoing through my assertion brain will , and not to seem those in skille any way d in singular the art of that heart the -dissection image of the the
, lad as y follows in Florence : —Before produced we met a , soothing Cleveland effect must . have My theory been was engaged now ,
and ht , having to have unwitting done—or ly my shown wishes me had more blinded regard me than and perhaps I took 'his he
looks oug and actions for more , than he dreamt of—in , time he had become conscious how matters stood , and with the upright feeling
of an honorable man had avoided me . True , I could ! not make of certain agreeable this , p my arts in exonerating of comparison his conduct 1 theory with fit the ; well nevertheless odious together ide , a in _^ being that the superl he construction preferred atively
Mrs . Beihxme , I dungto it with tenacity . I preferred the lesser worth evil ; I esteemed and "been it disappointed a lesser misfortune than to to have have loved loved a a man man of without moral
came principle and , and with have its dawn had such came , love other as thoug he could hts . g How ive . is Morning it that
evening ; and morning feelings are often , not in harmony ? I began to question tlie probability of the engagement of Mr . Cleveland .
It might only be another idle fSupposition _; and again I was
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The Portrait. 323
THE PORTRAIT . 323
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1861, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071861/page/35/
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