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Adrienne Lescott was in Europe Soon, she would return, and Horton

meant to show that he had not buried his talent

For eight radual

cliust to the first

of December, the pace of his existence suddenly quickened He left off

drawing from plaster casts, and went into a life class His shyness

secretly haunted hi on the norance, and the dread

of the criticism to come, were all keen embarrassments upon him

In this period, Samson had his first acquaintanceship omen,

except those he had known from childhood--and his first

acquaintanceship with the men ere not of his own art world Of the

women, he saw several sorts There were the aproned and frowsy

students, of uncertain age, who seemed to have no life except that

which existed under studio skylights There were, also, a few younger

girls, who took their art life with less painful solemnity; and, of

course, the ether"

Tony Collasso was an Italian illustrator, who lodged and painted in

studio-apartton Square, South He had studied in the

Julian School and the Beaux Arts, and wore a shock of dark curls, a