Jacqueline

by Th Bentzon

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781022914636
Publisher:	Anson Street Press
Publication date:	03/28/2025
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.13(d)

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CHAPTER III THE FRIEND OF THE FAMILY WEEK later M. de Nailles said to Hubert Marien, as they were smoking together in the conservatory, after the usual little family dinner on Wednesday was over: "Well! when would you like Jacqueline to come to sit for her picture?" "What! are you thinking about that?" cried the painter, letting his cigar fall in his astonishment. "She told me that you had proposed to make her portrait." "The sly little minx!" thought Marien. "I only spoke of painting it some day," he said, with embarrassment. "Well! she would like that 'some day' to be now, and she has a reason for wanting it at once, which, I hope, will decide you to gratify her. The third of June is Sainte-Clotilde's day, and she has taken it into her head that she would like to give her mamma a magnificent present a present that, of course, we shall unite to give her. For some time past I have been thinking of asking you to paint a portrait of my daughter," continued M. de Nailles, who had in fact had nomore wish for the portrait than he had had to be a deputy, until it had been put into his head. But the women of his household, little or big, could persuade him into anything. "I really don't think I have the time now," said Marien. "Bah! you have whole two months before you. What can absorb you so entirely ? I know you have your pictures ready for the Salon." "Yes of course of course but are you sure that Madame de Nailles would approve of it?" "She will approve whatever I sanction," said M. de Nailles, with as much assurance as if he had been master in his domestic circle; "besides, we don't intend to ask her. It is to be a surprise. Jacqueline is looking forward to the pleasure it willgive her. There is something very touching to me in the affection of that...