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Updated: June 21, 2025


"Adolphe, you remember, appeared to us on intimate terms with the famous Baroness Schinner, so renowned for her wit, her influence, her wealth and her connection with celebrated men. I supposed that he was welcomed at her house as a friend: my husband presented me, and I was coldly received.

Yes, dear Jojo, I know your picture is a masterpiece, but a masterpiece which will rouse a hue and cry about romanticism; you are doomed to lead the life of a devil in holy water. Adieu. Thy friend, Schinner Here follows the letter of Desroches: My dear Joseph, Your Monsieur Hochon strikes me as an old man full of common-sense, and you give me a high idea of his methods; he is perfectly right.

I ask your future protection, Excellency," added Schinner, turning to Oscar. "I congratulate myself on having travelled with three such distinguished men," said the count, "a painter already famous, a future general, and a young diplomatist who may some day recover Belgium for France."

Grindot, who stayed at the steward's house, showed such respect for the great artist that neither the steward nor his wife had attempted to put themselves on familiar terms with him. Moreover, the noblest and richest people in the surrounding country had vied with each other in paying attention to Schinner and his wife.

"La, la!" retorted Mistigris; "'an ounce o' paint is worth a pound of swagger." "And such a costume! pure Greek!" continued Schinner. "Conflagration of soul! you understand? Well, I questioned my Diafoirus; and he told me that my neighbor was named Zena. Changed my linen.

"And Monsieur Schinner was not addressing himself to you in particular," added Georges. "'Tisn't polite to interrupt," said Mistigris, sententiously, "but we all do it, and conversation would lose a great deal if we didn't scatter little condiments while exchanging our reflections. Therefore, continue, agreeable old gentleman, to lecture us, if you like.

"Monsieur is right," said the great Schinner to the count, motioning towards Oscar. "Well-bred people always talk of their 'households'; it is only common persons like ourselves who say 'home. For a man so covered with decorations " "'Nunc my eye, nunc alii," whispered Mistigris. " you seem to know little of the language of the courts.

It is done in the best society, and you know the proverb: 'we must 'owl with the wolves." "I had heard marvellous things of Dalmatia," resumed Schinner, "so I went there, leaving Mistigris in Venice at an inn " "'Locanda," interposed Mistigris; "keep to the local color." "Zara is what is called a country town " "Yes," said Georges; "but it is fortified."

"High art is at a low ebb," said his friend Pierre Grassou, who made daubs to suit the taste of the bourgeoisie, in whose appartements fine paintings were at a discount. "You ought to have a whole cathedral to decorate; that's what you want," declared Schinner; "then you would silence criticism with a master-stroke."

To enter the Institute and obtain the grade of officer of the Legion of honor; to side down beside Schinner and Leon de Lora, to reach the Academy before Bridau, to wear a rosette in his buttonhole! What a dream! It is only commonplace men who think of everything.

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