[A Daughter of To-Day by Sara Jeannette Duncan (aka Mrs. Everard Cotes)]@TWC D-Link bookA Daughter of To-Day CHAPTER V 2/10
Also it was known that he had condescended for none of these things. His success in Paris added piquancy to his preposterous notion that an Englishman should go home and paint England and hang his work in the Academy, and made it even more unreasonable than if he had failed. "For me," remarked Andre Vambery, with a finely curled lip, "I never see an English landscape without thinking of what it would bring _par hectare_.
It is _trop arrangee_, that country, all laid out in a pattern of hedges and clumps, for the pleasure of the milords.
And every milord has the taste of every other milord.
He will go home to perpetuate that!" "_Si, si! Mais c'est pour sa patrie._" Nadie defended him.
Women always did. "Bah!" returned her lover.
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