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The real Latin quarter (1901)

Smith, Frank Berkeley, 1869- · New York, Funk & Wagnalls Co. · leaf 155

An illustration from The real Latin quarter, 1901, leaf 155
urZ., the painter—en plein air; my skin wasnot as white as it is now, I can tell you—Iwas absolutely like an Indian ! Once—and Marguerite smiled at thememory of it— I went to England to posefor a painter well known there. It wasan important tableau, and I stayed theresix months. It was a horrible… … his family in a big stone house with a gar-den. We had tea and cakes at five in thestudio—always tea, tea, tea !—I can tellyou I used to long for a good bottle ofMadame Girauds vin ordinaire, and apoulet. So I left and came back to Paris.Ah! quelle place! that Angleterre! JPetaistoujours, toujours…

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