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at an early age remarkable proficiency as a singer having
even made her bow to the public when her years numbered
barely sweet sixteen. As for the face it was a speaking like-
ness in expression but it did not do justice to her figure which
came in for a lot of notice usually and which did not come
out to the best advantage in that getup. She could without
difficulty, he said, have posed for the ensemble, not to dwell
on certain opulent curves of the. He dwelt, being a bit of an
artist in his spare time, on the female form in general de-
velopmentally because, as it so happened, no later than that
afternoon he had seen those Grecian statues, 1450 perfectly
developed as works of art, in the National Museum. Marble
could give the original, shoulders, back, all the symmetry,
all the rest. Yes, puritanisme, it does though Saint Joseph’s
sovereign thievery alors (Bandez!) Figne toi trop. Whereas
no photo could because it simply wasn’t art in a word.
The spirit moving him he would much have liked to fol-
low Jack Tar’s good example and leave the likeness there for
a very few minutes to speak for itself on the plea he so that
the other could drink in the beauty for himself, her stage
presence being, frankly, a treat in itself which the camera
could not at all do justice to. But it was scarcely professional
etiquette so. Though it was a warm pleasant sort of a night
now yet wonderfully cool for the season considering, for
sunshine after storm. And he did feel a kind of need there
and then to follow suit like a kind of inward voice and sat-
isfy a possible need by moving a motion. Nevertheless he sat
tight just viewing the slightly soiled photo creased by opu-
lent curves, none the worse for wear however, and looked