"If you want confirmation of the fact, very well--both were here." "Because you deluded them with false vows of love." "By no means.

My heart has nothing what ever to do with these visits.
Gula came to thank me because I rendered her a service--you know it--which to every mother seems greater than it is." "But you certainly did not underestimate it," Ledscha impetuously interrupted, "for you demanded her honour in return." "Guard your tongue!" the artist burst forth angrily.

"The woman visited me unasked, and I let her leave me as faithful or as unfaithful to her husband as she came.

If I used her as a model--" "Gula, whom the sculptor transforms into a goddess," Ledscha interrupted, with a sneering laugh.
"Into a fish-seller, if you wish to know it," cried Hermon indignantly.
"I saw in the market a young woman selling shad.

I took the subject, and found in Gula a suitable model.