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Excerpt from A Double Wedding, or How She Was Won
Self-complacent, truly! As if one beautiful human face were not worth a hundred sunsets and ten times more difficult to paint.
Of this there is little question; yet I think the voca tion of the landscape and sky painter the rarest, the purest, of all others, and one requiring more innate fire, perhaps. A man Of mediocrity Often catches his inspira tion from his theme, especially where it is lovely, and woman, his subject, assists him. And he bowed slightly, significantly.
The lady smiled at the implied compliment. She was used to adulation, and it did not move her profoundly, come from whom it might; but the man was so fresh, rather than green, that praise from his lips had a savor about it like clover or sea breezes.
She looked at him with a merry ?ash Of her large brown eyes, half pleased, half arch, and a little derisive withal; and even in the dying light she saw how her glance made the red blood mantle his pale cheek and brow; and yet he returned her look earnestly and ardently.
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