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Updated: June 23, 2025
Don't disturb anything. That's the little one's corner." The result was that at ten years of age she hardly knew how to read and handled the modelling-tool with marvellous skill. Ruys would have liked to keep the child, who never annoyed him in any way, with him permanently, a tiny member of the great brotherhood.
They were artists, with refined heads and luxuriant beards; here and there you might see among them white-haired friends of Ruys, her father; then there were society men, bankers, stock-brokers, and a few young men about town, come to see the handsome girl rather than her sculpture, in order to be able to say at the club in the evening, "I was at Felicia's to-day."
With perfect composure, and with that minute attention to details which had characterised the king all his lifetime, and was now more evident than ever, he caused the provisions for his funeral obsequies to be read aloud one day by Juan Ruys de Velasco, in order that his children, his ministers, and the great officers of state who were daily in attendance upon him, might thoroughly learn their lesson before the time came for performing the ceremony.
On the wall was a handsome portrait of the duchess; on the chimneypiece a bust of the duke, the work of Felicia Ruys, which at the recent Salon had received the honours of a first medal. "Well, Jenkins, how are we this morning?" said his excellency, approaching, while the costumier was picking up his fashion-plates, scattered over all the easy chairs. "And you, my dear duke?
Green plants in every corner, a few good pictures hanging on the bare wall, and here and there on oak pedestals two or three of the works of Sébastien Ruys, whose very last work, not exhibited until after his death, was covered with black gauze.
Ruys was proud of the talent springing up by his side. As he grew weaker from day to day, having already reached the stage at which the artist regrets his vanishing powers, he followed Felicia's progress as a consolation for the close of his own career.
Finding that the last hour was approaching, he informed Don Fernando de Toledo where: he could find some candles of our lady of Montserrat, one of which he desered to keep in his hand at the supreme moment. He also directed Ruys de Velasco to take from a special shrine which he had indicated to him six years before a crucifix which the emperor his father had held upon his death-bed.
"But see how pleasant she is with the Nabob! If the duke were to come in!" "The Duc de Mora is coming?" "Certainly. It is for him that the party is given; to bring about a meeting between him and Jansoulet." "And you think that the duke and Mlle. Ruys " "Where have you come from? It is an intrigue known to all Paris. The affair dates from the last exhibition, for which she did a bust of him."
Ruys, her father, was enraptured each time that he came to see his daughter, to find her more grown, womanly, knowing how to enter, to walk, and to leave a room with that pretty courtesy which caused all Mme. Belin's pupils to long for the trailing rustle of a long skirt.
This unusual condition of his daughter was a real grief to the sculptor; but this grief was of short duration. Without warning, Ruys flickered out of life, fell to pieces in a moment, as was the way with all the Irishman's patients. His last words were: "Jenkins, I beg you to look after my daughter." They were so ironically mournful that Jenkins could not prevent himself from turning pale.
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