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Perhaps she wouldn’t have inspired such panicked horror if she had been a bit uglier. But there was nothing dim, turbid, or dead in her features.

The leading article was entitled “Modern Painting”: a dithyrambic panegyric of four or five young painters

To feel out of his sphere, retired from life, like a super-annuated functionary whose career is finished: What intolerable torture.

He would arrive spreading around him the exhilaration of his ride, a sort of matutinal breath of air

smiles that were almost tender and satisfied, a familiar and officious gallantry