only there were two weeks, instead of two more stingy 20minute poses, to capture that adorable figure!) Sho half shut her eyes, making honestly at last the gesture she had scorned all year to copy and pretend. Finding out bare essentials required it...Her problem's solution came to her for the first time in terms of oil-tube labels, not descriptive words. She unscrewed a minimum of proper caps.

Through the second rest period she continued to paint from memory, as many others did often enough so that no one commented. It was just before the third 'rost' that TenBrinck materialized behind her shoulder so unnoticed that at his exclamation she jerked violently and dropped a brush.

"Good, good, good!" She had heard that tone seldom, and never addressed to her. "A little shook, a little medieine, and we learn what is in us, not so?" His hands swept the air like an orchestra leader's, following the lines on her canvas. "Do not spoil it now with pretty detail. This is a sketch and one of power! Not a portrait. The scholarship is well justified. of course." He twinkled and went on, leaving her with ecstatically held breath.

As I knew,

During the last period she worked fiercely for the half of it, strengthening mass, line, shadow, in figure and background. Automatically then she picked up a smaller brush for detail. ...For the first time she saw detail till then her eyes, as it were on their om, had kept some different, blurring focus. But now...it was Garda Parton sitting there without clothes. Shallow firm breasts, their short wide nipples cedar-rose and almost without auriole. Navel a flick of brownish shadow on the flat belly. Pubic hair a mall violent black arrowhead burying its tip between the thighs...Van went hot, damp, weak.......swallowed again and again...Her hand shook too much to set the needed touches on canvas. She laid down her brush and went out.

When she had drunk thirstily at the fountain and run ice water over her hands and wrists, she returned thin-lipped and swiftly, tightly finished her job. She wanted this

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