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"Co!"

He went in to his wife

"Co timidly and

affectionately at her "You were to bla reen overcoat with a velvet collar and a hat,

and went towards his studio The successful figure he had

already forgotten Noas delighted and excited at the visit

of these people of consequence, Russians, who had coe

Of his picture, the one that stood now on his easel, he had at

the bottom of his heart one conviction--that no one had ever

painted a picture like it He did not believe that his picture

was better than all the pictures of Raphael, but he knew that

what he tried to convey in that picture, no one ever had

conveyed This he knew positively, and had known a long while,

ever since he had begun to paint it But other people's

criticisht be, had yet iitated hinificant, that showed that the critic

saw even the tiniest part of what he saw in the picture, agitated

him to the depths of his soul He always attributed to his