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The Marches were so cordial in their prophecies that the manager yielded to an artist's impulse and begged his fellow-artist to do him the pleasure of coming behind the scenes between the acts of the opera; he bowed a heart-felt regret to Mrs. March that he could not make the invitation include her, and hoped that she would not be too lonely while her husband was gone.
"The never-ending dispute," Myrtilus answered his fellow-artist, with a cordiality in which, nevertheless, there was a slight accent of pity. "Surely you know it, Daphne. To me the ideal and its embodiment within the limits of the natural, according to the models of Phidias, Polycletus, and Myron is the highest goal, but he and his co-workers seek objects nearer at hand."
Yet a man like the grammateus, who on the morrow or the day following it would be obliged to repeat his opinion before the King and the judges, certainly would not have allowed himself to be carried away by mere compassion to so great a falsification of his judgment. Or was he himself sharing the experience of many a fellow-artist?
If ever anything inspires us to do our best it is the presence in the audience of some fellow-artist who must in the nature of things know more completely than any one what we intend, what we do, what we feel. The response from such a member of the audience flies across the footlights to us like a flame. I felt it once when I played Olivia before Eleonora Duse.
I should have liked to have sketched her in my album. It would have been an ecstatic caricature. I turned my face away from her so as to be able to laugh. "I then spoke to her of painting, as I would have done to a fellow-artist, using the technical terms common among the devotees of the profession.
He had promised to take her from the Owl's Nest, after nightfall, for a lonely row upon the water. Now he was not coming alone, but with his fellow-artist, the sculptor Myrtilus, the nomarch and the notary she recognised both distinctly Gorgias, the rich owner of the second largest weaving establishment in Tennis, and several slaves. What did it mean?
Jack hesitated, and finally gave in; it was hard for him to resist a woman's tears and entreaties least of all when that woman was his fascinating little wife. A moment later he was in the street, walking rapidly toward the studio of his American friend and fellow-artist, Jimmie Drexell. "How Diane twists me around her finger!" he reflected ruefully.
One day a fellow-artist came in casually, and they both squinted, measured, and compared the portrait and herself with the calm absorption of a couple of prize-pig committeemen at a cattle-show. "You see, this line is shorter," the stranger said, almost laying his finger on Bertha's neck. "Not so straight, as you've got it. That's a fine line " "I know it is!" "And you don't want to spoil it.
Lepel was very much amused. "We have no piano, and I am sure that Mrs. Wadsley would not like it." "Then will you come to my rooms at twelve o'clock to-morrow morning?" "Thank you. Oh, Mr. Lepel, I am so very, very much obliged to you!" "I have done nothing yet to merit thanks, Miss West. I shall be only glad if I can be the means of assisting a fellow-artist out of a difficulty."
The Cupid who had thrown his to her was the little Maltese Hannibal, who sang with other boys as "Voices of the Flowers," and later was to take part in the great chorus. This friendly remembrance of her young fellow-artist cheered Barbara, and when a fight began, which was carried on by a dozen trained champions brought from Strasburg expressly for this purpose, she turned her attention to it.
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