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This portrait is not intended to be like." Madame Tapotte's eyes and mouth opened simultaneously. "Comment!" she exclaimed. "I should be extremely sorry," continued Müller, loftily, "and his lordship would be extremely sorry, if there were too much resemblance." "But a a likeness it seems to me, should at all events be like," stammered Madame Tapotte, utterly bewildered.

"A trump card? Say a California a Pactolus a Golden Calf. Nay, hath not Tapotte two golden calves? Is he not of the precious metal all compact? Stands he not, in the amiable ripeness of his years, a living representative of the Golden Age? 'O bella et

Plain or pretty?" "Elderly half-length, feminine gender Madame Tapotte. They are both there, Monsieur and Madame Excellent couple redolent of the country husband bucolic, adipose, auriferous wife arrayed in all her glory, like the Queen of Sheba.

I feel that the wildest visions of my youth are about to be realized, and that I shall see my tailor's bill receipted before I die!" "I'm delighted," said I, "that Tapotte has turned up a trump card."

"At the same time," continued Müller, "if Monsieur Tapotte were to honor me with a commission for, say, half a dozen family portraits, I would endeavor to put them in at forty francs apiece including, at that very low price, a Revolutionary Deputy, a beauty of the Louis Quinze period, and a Marshal of France." "Tiens! that's a fair offer enough," said madame. "What say you, mon ami?"

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