"Of course one talks like that when one hasn't enough to eat and can't sell a picture.

I don't pretend to have altered my opinion about photogravures, and all that.

But come now, the thing itself?
Be honest, Warburton.

Is it bad, now?
Can you look at that picture, and say that it's worthless ?" "I never said anything of the kind." "No, no! You're too deucedly good-natured.

But I always detected what you were thinking, and I saw it didn't surprise you at all when the Academy muffs refused it." "There you're wrong," cried Warburton.