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Updated: May 2, 2025
It does not matter how badly you paint, so long as you don't paint badly like other people. Education destroys individuality. That great studio of Julien's is a sphinx, and all the poor folk that go there for artistic education are devoured. After two years they all paint and draw alike, every one; that vile execution, they call it execution, la pâte, la peinture au premier coup.
And that was what Desmond Okewood thought as a few hours later he found himself with Maurice Strangwise in the stalls of the vast Palaceum auditorium. In the unwonted luxury of evening clothes he felt clean and comfortable, and the cigar he way smoking was the climax of one of Julien's most esoteric efforts. The cards on either side of the proscenium opening bore the words: "Deputy Turn."
Julien changed color; the blood coursed over his cheeks, his forehead, his ears; he drooped his head. "Did she tell you so?" he murmured, at last, feebly. "She did not, but I guessed it. Her heart is won, and I think I know by whom." Claudet had uttered these last words slowly and with a painful effort, at the same time studying Julien's countenance with renewed inquiry.
Their conversation was very trying to Julien's nerves. Nevertheless, he endeavored to fulfil his duties as master of the house, throwing in a word now and then, so as to appear interested in their gossip, but he ate hardly a mouthful. His features had a pinched expression, and every now and then he caught himself trying to smother a yawn.
She was turning things over in her mind, trying to reason, to put two and two together, to compare facts. How was it that she had not suspected this sooner? How was it that she had not noticed anything? How was it she had not guessed the reason of Julien's frequent absences, the renewal of his former attention to his appearance and the improvement in his temper?
She took Julien's hand and squeezed it, overcome with a longing for love in presence of the beauty of nature. Suddenly, as they emerged from this chaos, they saw before them another gulf, encircled by a wall of blood-red granite. And these red rocks were reflected in the blue waters. "Oh, Julien!" faltered Jeanne, unable to speak for wonder and choking with her emotion.
The latter became more and more troubled, and his physiognomy expressed both anxiety and embarrassment. "Whom do you suspect?" he stammered. "Oh!" replied Claudet, employing a simple artifice to sound the obscure depth of his cousin's heart, "it is useless to name the person; you do not know him." "A stranger?" Julien's countenance had again changed.
It was a treat to see people when one lived in the country the year round. The icy atmosphere pierced to their bones and made their voices hoarse. The baroness was coughing now and had stopped sneezing. The baron thought it was time to leave. The Brisevilles said: "What, so soon? Stay a little longer." But Jeanne had risen in spite of Julien's signals, for he thought the visit too short.
But Jeanne, who had not much will left, held her own this time, and had to be obeyed. One morning the young farmer, Julien's son, Denis Lecoq, came with his wagon for the first load. Rosalie went back with him in order to superintend the unloading and placing of furniture where it was to stand. Rosalie had come back and was waiting for Jeanne, who had been out on the cliff.
Then a business man came to settle the details of Julien's inheritance. Jeanne and the baron handed over the accounts without any discussion, even giving up the interest that should come to his mother. When Paul came back to Paris he had a hundred and twenty thousand francs.
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