"I didn't know any one had ever painted him.

He looks somewhat like an artist himself, doesn't he ?" She had never read the involved and quite Satanic history of this man, and only knew the rumor of his crimes and machinations.
"He was, in his way," smiled Cowperwood, who had had an outline of his life, and that of his father, Pope Alexander VI., furnished him at the time of the purchase.

Only so recently had his interest in Caesar Borgia begun.

Mrs.Sohlberg scarcely gathered the sly humor of it.
"Oh yes, and here is Mrs.Cowperwood," she commented, turning to the painting by Van Beers.

"It's high in key, isn't it ?" she said, loftily, but with an innocent loftiness that appealed to him.