Of course Arthur did." "Too much trouble!" said the old painter, shaking his head.

"I was in the swim, as they call it, for a year or two.

I might have stayed there, I suppose, for I could always tell a story, and I wasn't afraid of the big-wigs.

But I couldn't stand it.

Dress-clothes are the deuce! And besides, talk now is not what it used to be.