And yet it was not an easy picture to look at.

It was a picture of an advanced experimentalism, and would have appealed to nothing but the sense of humour in a person not a connoisseur.
"Sell!" exclaimed Priam.

Like all shy men he could hide his shyness in an exaggerated familiarity.

"What price this ?" And he pointed to the picture.
There were no other preliminaries.
"It is excessively distinguished," murmured Mr.Oxford, in the accents of expert appreciation.

"Excessively distinguished.