Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-02-03
A SUCCESSFUL PLAN.

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"And you refuse absolutely"
81 refuse absolutely" said Mrs. Jack
eostrevor.
| "But-"
'There is no question of but"
| "If----''
''Or if l positively refuse
'Then l shall have to get another
model
You will" She looked at her watch
Heavens! ! must be off. I've got
some shopping to do in Bond street be-
| fore | get home, and we're going out
to dinner at Hampstead. Why people
| want to live at such an unget-at-able
| place | don't imagine. 1t will take us
three quarters of an hour to drive
there, at least; and with the frost on
the road up that hill, it's as likely as
not we shall have one of the horses
| down.
She put down the dainty little Sevres
tea cup she had been holding on the
bamboo table, and began drawing on
her long black gloves.
It's great pity" Claud Seton NUT
tered to himself, "a great pity. l could
have made a capital picture of you
a really excellent picture"
Mrs Rostreyor held out dainty
arm.
You can button that for me-" she
said
He buttoned the glove mechanically.
You know perfectly we'll, she said,
as she rose, and standing opposite the
long glass, adjusted her big hat, cor
rected the set" of her sealskin sack
back" jacket, and pushed away from
her forhead recalcitrant brown curl
you know perfectly we'll that you can
get dozen women tomorrow for your
picture. Why any of the chorus girls
i from the Ambiguity would be only too
delighted to sit to you, and they could
bring boys" costumes with them"
Very likely" he said; but that s
not the same thing. want YOU
IT'S very great deal better thing.
and you can't have me-" she answered
''But you don't mind sitting to me
for 'Cassandra,'" he pleaded. His
eyes turned instinctiyely to the corner
frame, hung the original chalk sketch
for the picture which had been the SEN
sation of the artistic season.
NdSSdnuEd was CLASSICAL, Sne an
swered, with dignity. Besides, she
didn't wear tights. Between sitting for
'Cassandra,' who after all was "a most
respectable woman-even if all her
tips didn't come off, at least none oil
her clothes did-and sitting for, what
do you want to call the thing. The
Principal Boy?'-is all the difference
in the world"
But the dress of The Principal Boy
is eminently proper" he pleaded.
why, in a week or two. when the pan
TONNES begin, there will be, l should
think, about 10000 women in England
wearing the costume that you have
such objections to. And besides, tights
have the sanction of the government; /;
you surely do not mean to impugn the
discretion of the lord Chamberlain
) Tights don't have the sanction of
the government in this case" she said
turning around with a shake of her
skirts that was accompanied by the
rustling of an obviously expensive silk
petticoat My husband-Mr. Rostre-
vor has strong objections to them"
But / have seen him time after time
at the Ambiguity"
IF YOU would let me finish my SEN
tChSCS OClOiC yOu 1hISi PlCtlhG
them she said Il was going to add
in the case of his wife. If l sat for
The Principal Boy he would never lor-
give me. But after all, she continued
holding out her hand, 'all this is really
quite beside the point. l am not going
to do it, and there's an end of it,
''Goodby, then." he said, holding the
hand at least five seconds longer than
was necessary.
"Goodby!" she echoed. Shall, We
see you on Sunday?"
Il don't know" he said, Il have lot
to get. through if this picture is to be
, done in time for the spring exhibition
, You see, was relying on you. l real
: ly ought to have begun before
r Captain Harrington is coming" she
said, not taking her hand away.
, Il will certainly try to come" he
, said, eagerly.
| And little Jack Vassour!"
t ''You may depend on me-
a It'll Sunday, then," she said smil.
: ing.
Yes. till Sunday" he achoed.
= He went to the door of his studio
t hailed a cab, saw her into it. and then
2 came back and lit his largest pipe.
For half an hour he puffed away fer.
= 'ociously He really was exceedingly
annoyed He had counted on her sit
ting for this picture, and it was quite
true that by the time he had got an
= other model he would be hard put tC
n get the canvas through in time fol
J, the spring show. And, besides. he hat
ed the professional models Theil
talk wearied him; their presence. in
stead of inspiring seemed TO kill hi:
\ ideas. Something must be done. bu
how was he to do it? He knocked OIL
the ashes of his pipe and filled anoth
or. when that was finished, he knock
/. ed the ashes out again and once NOR
refilled 1t.
= The more he thought over the mat
}. ter the more he realized what a nuis
snce 1t was. Though Mrs. Rostrevo