New-York tribune., 1903-06-01

a1 like to get out Of my. corduroys now -.si1s and
t.aGd go over Where the swell folks live The
attn Quarter is all right I'm SORT o. an On. al.
Ihsn do But to ger into your good clothes ossa
sionally and take walk around the pIaces p W. 80
there's money and fashion and gooo Hali.e a. @ tan+ ~
ali that is good influence. At least II mas keps
me from being an Indian AS hs4 seP mentioned it
too-it's furnished the one event IN my NE "Or'N
Thompson looked straight at me with his steady STEADY
gray eyes to whether was IN tne rlgnt J nlIou
took deep inhalation Of my cigarette and looked
PACK at nm H., gsnfaI TO hear him out There
as rule 1ga[ cdnE6nn about thompson and to
night in spite OF his paint daubed clothes. ne
br6 had wsys attracted me 70 him he
took another meditative pull at his cigarette l
tPK R1Ilv ne 6e sad Quietly "a princess used live
over the Avenue du Bois VINO was a cream, .i an
himself u am in love with her I'm in love with
her now. Do you understand
'I hardly making enough TO live on IN rnoss @
days l often became sick and DISCOURAGED i i ~dS
feeling that way one DAY %neP M Rds hau neraIy the
sight Of all those rich people stirred up ny Z nes
me more melancholy than ever l wondered ~
should arrive. have good stuGIo, @ 70 HfI NV
frames was feeling altogether blue But t,1 when
saw her felt as though t,, hao T5s1 Tss1 saw her
I tell You IT was through haze OF old castles
felt felt myseIf grow white around the mouth -.
She was in open carriage l5h an 06 6rne4v IaGy
e[-es- hungry for what the world had not mag
Ypa7
WAS near the curb The old lady was looking al
the other promenaders. but the princess was lean,
ing hack in the cushions. with her eyes turned
down Her face was pale and the contour was
snAniteIv chaste and noble She was very slender.
ii+ba and graceful She dressed all In white.
and she was purity personided- stood there for
+Tat long minute that she was IN passing Keeling
awesfruck and religious And when az last she
Sad naSsed-I blushed at doing It. rememoer-i
took or nv hat Then went over and sat down
IN a bench and thought and dreamed all the rest
-,Tbe idea came that night to paint her
Dirfure I had never done anything big at that
ZINE hut I knew that should day This
would be IL I was absolutely sure Of myself /
didn't sleep any that night. ! began the portrait
next morning a little less sure. but hopeful and
determined. The work went along all right. as
T think OF IL now. but had awful lapses- was
sick haIf the time with worry and disappointment
Sometimes I all day IN front OF the picture
and scarcely touched it-just dreamed and aspired-
lost all heart for the rest OF my work The fei-
lows thought going to have typhoid
But II went along. I'd go 10 the Avenue du
Bois in the late afternoons; sometimes X was ror
the entire afternoon Whenever / saw her was
aIwavs more or less upset, but studied her
knew every detail OF the black wavy hair that sne
parted at one side. and the long straight eye
brows She had a fine deiicately arched nose.
rather thin lips and a chin like the Grande i'e-
uloiseIle's But the expression OF her eyes!
never could have got II. IL she hadn't one day
xhan shs passing looked straight AZ me