He took no newspapers .-- What did an artist need of them?
He did not even read the notices sent by a press-cutting agency.
He had a model with him.

She amused him for the time, but it was unsatisfactory working on "The King of Ys" from photographs.

He loathed it, and gave it up.
One evening Gaston and Andree met at the Gare Montparnasse.

Jacques was gone on, but Annette was there.

Meyerbeer was there also, at a safe distance.