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So far as I am concerned, he has lived and had his little troubles, perhaps thirty perhaps forty years on the earth, merely to make an ass of himself for three minutes in front of my window. Wonderful thing, Wilderspin, if you come to think of it." "Yes," said Wilderspin; "isn't it?" A day or two after this Bailey had a brilliant morning.
I was so absorbed in my thoughts that I did not observe whether I was or was not now alone in the room, till the name of Wilderspin fell on my ear and recalled me to myself. I started and looked round. At a table near me sat two men whom I had not noticed before. The face of the man who sat on the opposite side of the table confronted me.
"And you know nothing of my history previously to seeing me in the London studio?" I asked. "All that I could ever learn about that," said he, in what seemed to me a rather evasive tone, "I had to gather from the incoherent and rambling talk of Wilderspin, a religious enthusiast whose genius is very nearly akin to mania.
Do you remember my telling you the other day how the spirit of Mary Wilderspin in heaven came upon me in my sore perplexity and blessed me sent me a spiritual body led me out into the street, and 'Yes, yes, I remember; but what happened? 'We will sit, said Wilderspin. He placed chairs for us, and I perceived that my mother did not intend to go.
I could not tell her why, for I was recalling Wilderspin's words about her matchless beauty and its inspiring effect upon the painter who painted it. It would indeed, as Wilderspin had said, endow mediocrity with genius. 'Why do you sigh? she repeated. 'Oh, if I could paint that, Winnie, if I could paint that picture in the water. 'And why should you not? she said, in a dreamy way.
Wilderspin's in love with her daughter, a wonderfully beautiful girl, the finding of whom at the very moment when he was in despair for the want of the right model gave the final turn to his head. He thinks she was sent to him from Paradise by his mother's spirit! He does, I assure you. 'Wilderspin in love with a model! 'Oh, not
'My friend, said Wilderspin solemnly, 'the news I have to give you is news that I knew you would rather receive when you could hear it alone. 'You said she was safe! 'Yes, safe indeed!
Did I hear His Majesty of Gypsydom aright? He leant against a tree, and gave utterance to peal after peal of laughter. I advanced with rapidly rising anger, but his hilarity had so overmastered him that he did not heed it. 'Wilderspin, cried he, 'come here! Pray come here.
I did not know then that her attitude towards me at this moment came from the final struggle in her breast between her pride and that remorse which afterwards took possession of her and seemed as though it would make the remainder of her life a tragedy without a smile in it. At that moment Wilderspin and Sleaford came in from the smaller studio. 'Where is she? I said to Wilderspin.
'In the crypt my senses had a kind of license to play me tricks, I murmured; 'but now and here my reason shall conquer. And I stood and gazed at the veil. During all the time I could hear every word of the talk between Wilderspin, Sleaford, and my mother before the picture in the other room.
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