Читать книгу The Life of Sir William Quiller Orchardson - Hilda Orchardson Gray - Страница 32
Oh, be kinder if you can Remember you are but a man. Cruel artist to give pain, Hundreds sigh for thee in vain. A time will come, you need not fear, Remember this is still Leap Year! Do not think you will pass free Soon your fate will come I see. Oh! handsome William I must try Now, to say that word, “Good-bye.”
ОглавлениеMrs Peter Graham writes to me that she often met my Father during the first three years of her married life, both in her own house and at friends—this was before his marriage.
“He was always good-looking, so light-hearted and so clever in conversation. Occurrences that would have worried most people seemed only to amuse him, and the recital of the inconveniences incident to most bachelors with London housekeepers afforded much entertainment to his friends. He was curiously un-Scotch in the way he would not allow himself to become ruffled.”
A list of visitors at Fitzroy Square with a description of each might be amusing, but as I have no means of making a complete list, and to omit some would be to offend, I leave it to the imagination of the reader and will merely say that the company consisted of all the liveliest artists and artists’ friends of that period; not to mention most of the big picture dealers.
[1] Edinburgh studio.
[2] Stephen Orchardson from Spain probably.
