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CHAPTER I.
Оглавление[Scene-An Artist’s Studio in Rome.]
“Oh, George, I do love you!”
“Bless your dear heart, Mary, I know that — why is your father so obdurate?”
“George, he means well, but art is folly to him — he only understands groceries. He thinks you would starve me.”
“Confound his wisdom — it savors of inspiration. Why am I not a money-making bowelless grocer, instead of a divinely gifted sculptor with nothing to eat?”
“Do not despond, Georgy, dear — all his prejudices will fade away as soon as you shall have acquired fifty thousand dol — ”
“Fifty thousand demons! Child, I am in arrears for my board!”
