It stands just below your portrait which that young artist--you remember--painted for nothing.

Ah! since then he has become a famous artist; since then he has painted your portrait in at least three hundred different ways, and sent it to all the exhibitions, and there the greatest noblemen pay him large sums of money for that very portrait.

Yes, and bid against each other for it, too.

I might say that that painter has founded his reputation on that one portrait, for since then his name is familiar in all first-class houses.

That picture did the whole thing." Ah! now she is trying the door of vanity! "The man himself would not believe it," pursued Mrs.Meyer.