"Why, we might mount the opera with a few supernumeraries and astonish Naples by our performance! What say you?
But let us come to business.

I like the picture you have on the easel there--may I see it more closely ?" He drew it nearer; it was a showy landscape with the light of the sunset upon it.

It was badly done, but I praised it warmly, and purchased it for five hundred francs.

Four other sketches of a similar nature were then produced.

I bought these also.