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Therefore he had determined to join them, depending upon his reputation to allay any suspicion they might have regarding his motives. Haydon had taken him into the band, but Harlan had been convinced that Haydon distrusted him. He had seen distrust in Haydon's eyes; and he had known, when Haydon dropped his gaze at the instant they had shaken hands, that the man meditated duplicity.
This bazaar proved to be the Pantheon, and the first picture we saw in the gallery was Haydon's Resurrection of Lazarus, a great height and breadth of canvas, right before you as you ascend the stairs.
But for that cause I should have presumed to call upon you when I was in London last spring. 'With every good wish, I remain, dear Miss Barrett, your much obliged It may be added that although Miss Barrett altered the passage criticised by the great poet, she did not accept his amendment. It now runs 'A noble vision free Our Haydon's hand has flung out from the mist.
She had hardly spoken to him in the four days that had elapsed since Haydon's last visit, for the disgust she had felt that day had endured. But there was something new in his manner now a briskness, a business-like air that made her look sharply at him. He smiled at her, and in the smile was a snapping humor that puzzled her.
"The thought was just dwelling in my mind," said the old man, turning toward her, a little surprised. "I was sorry I was stand in' right there; they didn't feel so free to speak, you know," said Maria, who had accepted her place as substitute with a touching self-forgetfulness and devotion, following as best she could the humblest by-paths of the first Mrs. Haydon's career.
Mr. Lane had too much delicacy to say that the quarrel had arisen over their respective opinions as to Thomas Haydon's honesty. Finding that he could not induce the senior partner to make public what he believed to be the theft of the great jewel, Baumann had broken off his connection with the firm. "I have a long story to tell you, but this is not the time to tell it," said Jack's father.
She arranged their present and their future for them, and showed them how in the past they had been wrong in all their methods. Mrs. Haydon's only trouble was with her two daughters, whom she could not make behave well to her parents. The two girls were very nasty to all their numerous relations.
It was not Haydon's plan to let Deveny know he knew of the affair, or that he cared about it if he had heard. And so he did not mention it. But in his heart was a rage that made his thoughts venomous; though he concealed his emotions behind the bland, smooth smile of good-natured tolerance. "I'll handle him, Deveny," he said as he took leave of the other.
Harlan did not resent Haydon's manner; he was too pleased over his discovery that Haydon possessed traits of character that unfitted him for an alliance with Barbara. And it would be his business to bring those traits out, so that Barbara could see them unmistakably.
Then I was liberal in my art; I spared no expense for casts and prints, and did great things for the art by means of them.... Ought I, after such efforts as I had made, to have been left in this position by the Directors of the British Gallery or the Government? The year 1816 was distinguished in Haydon's life as the epoch of his first, or, more accurately, his last serious love-affair.
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