I know where to lay my hand on ten golden angels: they will take you to Rome: and the girl with you, if she loves you as she ought." They sat till midnight over this theme.

And, after that day, Gerard recovered his spirits, and seemed to carry a secret talisman against all the gibes and the harsh words that flew about his ears at home.
Besides the money she procured him for the journey, Margaret Van Eyck gave him money's worth.

Said she, "I will tell you secrets that I learned from masters that are gone from me, and have left no fellow behind.

Even the Italians know them not; and what I tell you now in Tergou you shall sell here in Florence.

Note my brother Jan's pictures: time, which fades all other paintings, leaves his colours bright as the day they left the easel.