"
'"Ah," he said, "I am much interested. Let me see you classify them
according to your view. There are, as you see, two brunettes and two
blondes."
'"Yes," I said, "between this grand brunette, to use your own
expression, holding a pomegranate in her hand and the other brunette
whose beautiful eyes are glistening and laughing over the fruit she
is holding up, there is the same difference that there is between the
blonde's face under the apple blossoms and the other blonde's face of
the figure that is listening to music. In both faces the difference
seems to be that of the soul."
'"The two faces," said he, "in which you see what you call soul are
painted from two dear friends of mine--ladies of high intelligence
and great accomplishments, who occasionally honour me by giving me
sittings--the other two are painted from two of the finest hired
models to be found in London."
'"Then," I said, "an artist's success depends a great deal upon his
model? I had no idea of such a thing."
'"It does indeed," he said. "Such success as I have won since my
great loss is very largely owing to those two ladies, one so grand
and the other so sweet, whom you are admiring.
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