[A Word Only A Word Complete by Georg Ebers]@TWC D-Link bookA Word Only A Word Complete CHAPTER XVII 14/15
Now I'm prosperous, and can rarely succeed in writing a verse.
Fires are not needed in summer." "Where have you been lodged ?" "Here in the 'old cat.' That's a good name for this Goliath's palace." When Eitelfritz had enquired about the jester and drunk a goblet of wine with Moor and Ulrich, he took leave of them both, and soon after the artist went to the city alone. At the usual hour Isabella Coello came with her duenna to the studio, and instantly noticed the change Sophonisba's portrait had undergone. Ulrich stood beside her before the easel, while she examined his work. The young girl gazed at it a long, long time, without a word, only once pausing in her scrutiny to ask: "And you, you painted this--without the master ?" Ulrich shook his head, saying, in an undertone: "I suppose he thinks it is my own work; and yet--I can't understand it." "But I can," she eagerly exclaimed, still gazing intently at the portrait. At last, turning her round, pleasant flee towards him, she looked at him with tears in her eyes, saying so affectionately that the innermost depths of Ulrich's heart were stirred: "How glad I am! I could never accomplish such a work.
You will become a great artist, a very distinguished one, like Moor.
Take notice, you surely will.
How beautiful that is!--I can find no words to express my admiration." At these words the blood mounted to Ulrich's brain, and either the fiery wine he had drunk, or the delighted girl's prophetic words, or both, fairly intoxicated him.
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