A Modern Lover (Classic Reprint)

a nCTWlE collector.
" I'll let you Lave it for fifteen shillings."
" I dare say you will, but I don't iutend to buy any moro water-colours of you."
"I am vory bard up ; givo mo teu shillings."
"No, I roally can't; I have at loast a hundred and odd drawings by you, and half of them aron't oven numbered : it will take 100 a wook to got through thorn."
" I'm nearly starving."
" So you have ofton said before."
The last speaker was an old> wizened little creature, with a grizzled white beard ; the other was a young man of exquisite beauty, his feminine grace seemed like a relic of ancient Greocc, saved by soma miracle through the wreck and ruin of agos. He leaned against an oak bureau, placod under a high, narrow window, and the pose denned his too developed hips, always, in a man, the sign of a weak and lascivious nature. His companion looked norvoualy through a pile of drawings, holding them up for a moment to the light, then instantly throwing them back iuto the h

Table of Contents

CHAPTER PAGE; I-A PTCTORE COLLECTOR, 9 II-PaINTTNO FROM IMAGINATION, 21; III-Painting a Venos, 27; IV-A Picture Dealer, , 32; V-Ms Vioome, - 44; VI-Desertion, 43; VII-Lewis Seymour's Eably Lire, , 03 VIIL -Ik the Country, • 63; IX-Tin; D£COBAtion9, • 71 X-An Interlude, , , 77; XI-A Tknnis Party, 82; X1L- Love and Art,09; XIIL-Ekfin,U