He had become a different man, a very excited man.
"By Jove," he exclaimed, surveying the picture, "I can paint!" Artists do occasionally soliloquize in this way.
The picture was dazzling! What atmosphere! What poetry! And what profound fidelity to nature's facts! It was precisely such a picture as he was in the habit of selling for L800 or a L1,000, before his burial in Westminster Abbey! Indeed, the trouble was that it had 'Priam Farll' written all over it, just as the sketch had! * * * * *.