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"Prove it to me," said the bottle-dealer, "and I double my daughter's 'dot, for if it is so, you are Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Gerard Douw!" "And Magus is a famous picture-dealer!" said the painter, who now saw the meaning of the misty and aged look imparted to his pictures in Elie's shop, and the utility of the subjects the picture-dealer had required of him.
While he posed the father of the young person, he thought the bottle-dealer had a good countenance, and he admired the face full of violent tones. The mother and daughter hovered about the easel, marvelling at all his preparations; they evidently thought him a demigod. This visible admiration pleased Fougeres. The golden calf threw upon the family its fantastic reflections.
"Should I be likely to have our portraits painted by an artist who wasn't decorated?" returned the former bottle-dealer. Elie Magus here bowed to the Vervelle family and went away. Grassou accompanied him to the landing. "There's no one but you who would fish up such whales." "One hundred thousand francs of 'dot'!" "Yes, but what a family!"
The painter went modestly by public conveyance, and he could not but admire the beautiful villa of the bottle-dealer, standing in a park of five acres at the summit of Ville d'Avray, commanding a noble view of the landscape. Marry Virginie, and have that beautiful villa some day for his own!
"He has over one hundred thousand francs' worth of pictures." "I love Art," said the former bottle-dealer. When Madame Vervelle's portrait was begun that of her husband was nearly finished, and the enthusiasm of the family knew no bounds. The notary had spoken in the highest praise of the painter.
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