d Green in England, and see what I coulddo to help and cheer him up. I had written to him that I wouldshare mv windfall with him — that the half of it was his, for soI understood friendship in those days. Would I do it now? Notmuch. It would diminish the widows third. But there was noquestion of a… … was to marry a rich widow — a Spanish widow ? Not only that —but was I not at that very time circling like a moth about a verybeautiful and rich widow ? Do not long rides in the twilight in theBois de Boulogne — winter twilights and in a luxurious carriage— predispose the mind to languishing…
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Painters
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