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My dear Sylvestre, how can I thank you?" I seized my friend's hand and begged his forgiveness for my foolish haste of speech. He, too, was a little touched and overcome by the pleasure his surprise had given me. "Look here, Plumet," he said to the frame-maker, who had taken the sketch over to the light, and was studying it with a professional eye.
He surveyed the invalid, who was softening. Musard knew no more of pictures than a frame-maker; but that was a fact one did not mention in his presence. "Since Corot," sighed Musard, "I have seen few pictures which were en effet pictures." "You have great memories," agreed Rufin hastily. "But I have just seen a picture ah, but a picture, my friend!"
"Well," continued Thorndyke, "the frame-maker had pasted his label on the back of the frame, and as this label hung the right way up, it appeared as if the person who fixed the photograph on the wall had adopted it as a guide." "It is very extraordinary," said Stephen.
Ashton, please," he said, wearily, turning round. "I am sorry I kept you so long. I was thinking of something else." "Always glad to have a rest, Mr. Gray," answered the frame-maker, who was still gasping for breath. "Where shall we put it, sir?" "Oh, anywhere, Here, this will do. I don't want to have it hung up. Just lean it against the wall. Thanks." "Might one look at the work of art, sir?"
"This young man has even a greater interest than I in the matter. He is a suitor for the lady's hand, and you can be very useful to him. If you do not frame the picture his happiness is blighted." The frame-maker shook his head. "Let's see, Antoine," said a coaxing little voice, and Madame Plumet left the cradle to come to our aid. I considered our cause as won.
"There will be no difficulty, sir," said the genial frame-maker, beginning, with the aid of his assistant, to unhook the picture from the long brass chains by which it was suspended. "And, now, where shall we carry it to, Mr. Gray?" "I will show you the way, Mr. Ashton, if you will kindly follow me. Or perhaps you had better go in front. I am afraid it is right at the top of the house.
Below the houses are shops, and the first story of Heine's house is a butcher shop, with sides of pork and mutton hanging in the windows; above, where the Heine family must once have lived, a gold-beater and a frame-maker displayed their signs. But did the Heine family really once live there?
"This young man has even a greater interest than I in the matter. He is a suitor for the lady's hand, and you can be very useful to him. If you do not frame the picture his happiness is blighted." The frame-maker shook his head. "Let's see, Antoine," said a coaxing little voice, and Madame Plumet left the cradle to come to our aid. I considered our cause as won.
The little dressmaker told me that she was engaged to M. Plumet, frame-maker. She told her tale very clearly; a little money put by, you see, out of ten years' wages; one may be careful and yet be taken in; and, alas! all has been lent to a cousin in the cabinetmaking trade, who wanted to set up shop; and now he refuses to pay up. The dowry is in danger, and the marriage in suspense.
"This young man has even a greater interest than I in the matter. He is a suitor for the lady's hand, and you can be very useful to him. If you do not frame the picture his happiness is blighted." The frame-maker shook his head. "Let's see, Antoine," said a coaxing little voice, and Madame Plumet left the cradle to come to our aid. I considered our cause as won.
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