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Updated: June 29, 2025
The women began to titter, and 'Liza's face to flame, but her lover proceeded with great complacency: "Well, I was beset in my mind till an hour agone, when as I walked down here with 'Liza, half mad to take leave of her, and sail for Rio Grande, and likewise sick of her temper I sees this gentleman a-doin' pictures at seven-an'-six; and thinks I, 'If I can get 'en to make a copy of 'Liza's good looks, then I shall take off to sea as much as I want of her, an' the rest, temper included, can bide at home till I calls for it.
Then with a look that, as it travelled in a semi-circle, obliterated the sympathy which most of the men put into their faces, and the sneaking delight which all the women wore on theirs, she strode out of the fish-market and up the street. Seven-an'-Six squeezed the paint out of his brushes, packed up his easel and japanned box, wished the company good-day, and strolled back to his inn.
"Well, young sir," said he, gazing thoughtfully up at the blue sky "since you are you, an' nobody else an' ax me on so fair a morning, wi' the song o' birds filling the air we'll charge you only well say ten shillings: say eight, say seven-an'-six say five theer, make it five shillings, an' dirt-cheap at the price, too."
The painter locally known as Seven-an'-Six was a white-haired little man, with a clean-shaven face, a complexion of cream and roses, a high unwrinkled brow, and blue eyes that beamed an engaging trustfulness on his fellow-creatures, of whom he stood ready to paint any number at seven shillings and sixpence a head.
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