They flung money about for a few months as if they were backed by the Barings.

The Barings might have given their suppers.

As for their studio--there was no untidier jumble of old armor and brasses and Spanish leather in Paris; and Mme.

George posing in the middle in soiled tea-gowns! But the suppers suddenly stopped, and the leather and Persian hangings went to the Jews.

I met Lisa one day coming out of the Vendome, where she had been trying to peddle a roll of George's sketches to the rich Americans.