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"Would it please you to receive instruction in our beautiful language?" he inquired, with an appealing quaver. "To study French?" asked Newman, staring. M. Nioche pressed his finger-tips together and slowly raised his shoulders. "A little conversation!" "Conversation that's it!" murmured Mademoiselle Noemie, who had caught the word. "The conversation of the best society."
Mademoiselle Noemie had collected her accessories, and she gave the precious Madonna in charge to her father, who retreated backwards out of sight, holding it at arm's-length and reiterating his obeisance. The young lady gathered her shawl about her like a perfect Parisienne, and it was with the smile of a Parisienne that she took leave of her patron.
Then the young man stood there, with his hand on his hip, and with a conscious grin, staring askance at Miss Noemie. Suddenly an idea seemed to strike him, and he said, turning to Newman, "Oh, you know her?" "Yes," said Newman, "I know her. I don't believe you do." "Oh dear, yes, I do!" said Lord Deepmere, with another grin. "I knew her in Paris by my poor cousin Bellegarde you know.
Oh, sir, misfortunes terrible." "Unsuccessful in business, eh?" "Very unsuccessful, sir." "Oh, never fear, you'll get on your legs again," said Newman cheerily. The old man drooped his head on one side and looked at him with an expression of pain, as if this were an unfeeling jest. "What does he say?" demanded Mademoiselle Noemie. M. Nioche took a pinch of snuff.
"All I say is that I suspect there are some things that you can do better than paint," said Valentin. "I know the truth I know the truth," Mademoiselle Noemie repeated. And, dipping a brush into a clot of red paint, she drew a great horizontal daub across her unfinished picture. "What is that?" asked Newman.
"I am very glad," said Mademoiselle Noemie with extreme gentleness, and she began to dabble in her colors again. She was singularly pretty, with the look of serious sympathy that she threw into her face. Valentin took advantage of her downcast eyes to telegraph again to his companion.
It was the only thing to do with it. I had sat looking at it all day without touching it. I had begun to hate it. It seemed to me something was going to happen." "I like it better that way than as it was before," said Valentin. "Now it is more interesting. It tells a story. Is it for sale?" "Everything I have is for sale," said Mademoiselle Noemie. "How much is this thing?"
"You didn't see the muzzle of a pistol sticking out of his pocket?" "What are you driving at?" Newman demanded. "I thought he seemed rather cheerful for him." Valentin broke into a laugh. "I am delighted to hear it! I win my bet. Mademoiselle Noemie has thrown her cap over the mill, as we say. She has left the paternal domicile. She is launched!
If this strange gentleman was saying anything improper to his daughter, M. Nioche would entreat him huskily, as a particular favor, to forbear; but he would admit at the same time that he was very presumptuous to ask for particular favors. "Monsieur has bought my picture," said Mademoiselle Noemie. "When it's finished you'll carry it to him in a cab."
Newman pointed out what pleased him, and Mademoiselle Noemie generally criticised it, and proposed something else. Then suddenly she diverged and began to talk about some personal matter. "What made you speak to me the other day in the Salon Carre?" she abruptly asked. "I admired your picture." "But you hesitated a long time." "Oh, I do nothing rashly," said Newman. "Yes, I saw you watching me.
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