Capitolo 44
children, and after having quietly praised the beautiful dance her Mr. Vain
assistant,--
"I am trying--to find a face among them for a portrait I am
doing; but the small dearses are too much all youth, and I have to look
elsewhere for a model for my wood-nymph."
"Is it model to find very hard?" Asked Jessie, eating his/her ice with the
taste of a girl that doesn't often taste him.
"What I want is very difficult to find. I can find a lot of mendicant-girls,
but this has to be a refined, young and flourishing face but with poetry
in him; and that doesn't come without a different training from some
my usual models get. It will be difficult me to be all right, for me they are in a
hurry and he/she doesn't know whether to look,"--what last sentence was not
rather true, for the long glass it precisely showed him/it what he wanted.
"I help Mademoiselle with his/her classes, and she has pupils of everybody
age; you could perhaps find there of the one."
Jessie seemed so party that the felt of artist that he had started
well, and it risked a further footstep as him it passed the cake-basket for
the third time.
"You are very kind; but the trouble there is, that I don't fear anybody of
the young ladies would consent to sit to me if I dared to ask to them.
I will confide that I have seen a head that completely it suits me;
but I fear that I cannot find him/it. Give me Your suggestion, please. Owes her
you think this beautiful creature it would be offended, if I made the application
more respectfully?"
"No, indeed; I should think that she would be proud to help with one of
Your portraits, gentleman. My sister thinks that they is very beautiful; and us
it held one of them when we had to sell the whole rest", Jessie said in
his/her anxious way, frank.
"That was a beautiful compliment, and I am proud of it. Please says
his/her so, with my graces. Which was it?"
"The woman is head,--the sad one, the sweet people call a Madonna. Us
Mother calls him/it, and you loves him a lot of, for you/he/she says Laura you/he/she is as ours
mother. I never saw her/it, but my sister remembers a lot the dear face