San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-10-30

brush, which did not keep him from
his work second-"two hours day, you
might shave him, put him in petticoats,
and send him home to keep lady's school
at the finish, and he'd do justice to the.
situation"
After this, his work absorbed him, and.
he went quiet for a time, painting away
with an assiduity and enjoyment which
were delightful to look at Then he began
TO sing to tune of his own, and not
particularly good one either. His singing
voice was as harsh and intractable as his,
whistle was mellow and tuneful. By.
and-by, words got into the muffied ditty,
and the millionaire overheard a version
of Youths smooth ocean, smiling to be-
tray.
you read Shelley?" he asked. He was
doubly ashamed of himself after the ques-
ton. for the tone sounded patronizing and
astonished in his own sensitive ears. Why
could he not be like other men, easy and
unembarrassed with his kind2 or why,
since that might not be. could he not at
least find the sense to hide himself and
hold his tongue? Perhaps, as matter of
fact, neither the surprise nor the patron
age was there, except to his own fancy.
of them, but answered without touch of
the embarrassment his companion expert
enced
Eyes, sir. There's nobody got more of
it inside him than that young man, reck-
Oh, not since Shakspeare's time, anyhow.
l don't paint the figger, but if did there's
one thing of Shelley's I'd have on canvas
before year was over, and I'd just get re-
membered along with Michael and Peter
Paul, and the whole of that crowd"
What is the passage?" the little mill
ionaire asked. The artist turned solemnly
on his camp-stOol, and acclaimed the i'm
mortal lines vilely, waving his right hand
up and down to mark the metre he MUIR
dered in delivery
''Trampling the slant winds on high,
With gOlden-sandalled feet that glow
Under plumes of purple dye
Like rose-ensanguined ivory,
shape comes now!'
The accent of Marblehead nosed and
droned through the words, but the artist
was solemnly and beautifully in earnest.
His handsome face beamed, and his blue
eyes looked at the splendid vision as if
they actually saw it speeding downward
over the translucent sea beyond the tree
stems.
The listener wondered how he had come
to form so disparaging judgment of this
pleasing young man. He had a self-con-
scious habit of reading lessons to himself
continually, and he made a memorandum
now to the effect that he was in future to
Judge men less by mere manner than he
had done. He knew all the while that if
they were in any public place together he
would feel uncomfortable, that he would
be vicariously guilty of the crimson tie
and the OvergrOwn auburn name, the roar
ing voice and the Marblehead accent.
For the time being, very little more was
said between them. The artist worked
away with love and vigor, and the mill
ionaire looked on for an hour or more, I'M
til finally the worker put down his tools
upon the grass, and, after taking re-
jocing stretch with his feet wide apart
and his hands in the air, he began to study
his picture from various distances, some
times with shade of disparagement in his
face, but. on the whole, with pretty OBJ
viOus contentment.
81 guess she'll do" he said at last. 81
shall find out by-and-by something don't
like, of course: but, for the time being,
she'll do. And now, SIR" he continued,
beginning to pack up his effects, Pm 60
ing to stoke the engine"
you stay at the hotel here?" asked the
millionaire.
AT the Chateau, as they call its Yes"
perhaps you will be good enough to
show me the way. l have already been
directed, but am afraid l have lost my
bearings. Can help you in carrying any
of your things
Lord, nor' said the other: we're only
three or four hundred yards away The
weights nothing"
They set out together. side by side, and
the young painter t,ttked as he strobe
along. H hal chosen. he sail Il scene
for his afternoons WORK wnicn whipped
the other hollow.
''There's some at the gaUleSt kind of
cloud structure arOuu nrrr lou ever saw,
sir I've only been here four or five days,
and I've seen some effects that have Just
been real rippin' lovely Fve got sort
of rapid study of one of 'em, and if you
care for that sort of thing I'll show it to
you. It's all as quiet as sleep-dove greys,
silver greys; but it's as pretty as any
thing"
The millionaire said he would have the
greatest pleasure in looking at the work if
he might be allowed; and when the artist
had conducted him to the hotel and had
led him upstairs into bedroom, he said
something about having begun to form a
collection of pictures, and murmured of
the desire to add to it,
'Oh, if we've got patron here" said
the painter, with humorously simulated
hustle, I'VE must move around You're
one of the men that buy pictures, sir?