Have no barns--that's my principle--and then you can't pull 'em down and build greater! But, you know, it's all great nonsense, your talking like this! You're as clever as ever--cleverer.

You've only got to _paint_--and it'll be all right.

But, of course, if you will spend all your time in writing letters to the papers, and pamphlets, and that kind of thing--well!--' He shrugged his shoulders.
Fenwick took the remark good-temperedly.

'I've finished three large pictures in eight months--if only somebody would buy 'em.

And I'm in Paris now'-- he hesitated a moment--'on a painting job.