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The youth, the loveliness, the genius of Mrs. Cosway became town talk. Her husband's house was thronged with people of fashion who came to see, admire the lady artist, and purchase specimens of her art.
Atherton presented him to the charming Miss Restall; and Mrs. Cosway shuddered inwardly at the bare idea of a second marriage. Was Miss Restall the sort of woman to restore his confidence? She was small and slim and dark a graceful, well-bred, brightly intelligent person, with a voice exquisitely sweet and winning in tone.
But Cosway believed without the slightest effort; he was troubled by no hint of suspicion. His relics and curiosities were in his eyes absolutely and unquestionably genuine.
And she so cordially hates you that she glories in her own falsehood and treachery." "Of course, she lies," Cosway said bitterly, "when she calls herself Miss Benshaw?" "No; she is really the daughter of the man who founded the great house in the City.
My preference is for Mr. Cosway," proceeded this terrible woman with the cruelest irony, "because he has been so particular in his attentions toward me. Such is my weakness for Mr. Cosway. But that don't matter if Mr. Stone would like to take his place. He can hail by his friend's name. Oh, yes, he can! I have consulted my lawyer.
The moral of it, my dear Cosway, is to leave this place, and try what change of scene will do for you. I have time to spare; and I will go abroad with you. When shall it be?" "Let me wait a day or two more," Cosway pleaded. Stone shook his head. "Still hoping, my poor friend, for a line from Miss Restall? You distress me." "I am sorry to distress you, Stone.
Here Jervas painted the pupil of Kneller, and the admired of Pope, whose deformity the painter in his portrait of the poet did his best to mend and conceal; here lived mad Jack Astley, who made so prosperous a marriage with the rich Lady Duckenfield; and Nathaniel Hone, the Royal Academician, retaining on the premises a negress model, famous for her exquisite symmetry of form; then Cosway and, greatest of all, Thomas Gainsborough, dying in an upper room on the 2d of August 1778.
He was the elder of the two by a year, and he set an example of discretion. "I am afraid we are running up a terrible bill," he said. "We have been here more than three weeks " "And we have denied ourselves nothing," Cosway added. "We have lived like princes. Another bottle of champagne, waiter.
Before Cosway had been an hour in the house, she discovered that his long term of service on foreign stations had furnished him with subjects of conversation which favorably contrasted with the commonplace gossip addressed to her by other men. Cosway at once became a favorite, as Othello became a favorite in his day. Margery.
Cosway, presuming on his position as favorite, produced the contents of the two pocketbooks and revealed the melancholy truth. "There is all the money we have," he concluded. "We hope you will not object to receive the balance in a bill at three months." Mrs. Pounce answered with a stern composure of voice and manner entirely new in the experience of Cosway and Stone.
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