I have heard say that he is not a very good friend to Church and State.

Come, young man," he added, "it appears to me that you are too modest; I like your style of painting, so do we all, and--why should I mince the matter ?--the money is to be collected in the town, why should it go into a stranger's pocket, and be spent in London ?" "Thereupon I made them a speech, in which I said that art had nothing to do with Church and State, at least with English Church and State, which had never encouraged it; and that, though Church and State were doubtless very fine things, a man might be a very good artist who cared not a straw for either.

I then made use of more Greek words, and told them how painting was one of the Nine Muses, and one of the most independent creatures alive, inspiring whom she pleased, and asking leave of nobody; that I should be quite unworthy of the favours of the Muse if, on the present occasion, I did not recommend them a man whom I considered to be a much greater master of the heroic than myself; and that, with regard to the money being spent in the city, I had no doubt that they would not weigh for a moment such a consideration against the chance of getting a true heroic picture for the city.

I never talked so well in my life, and said so many flattering things to the hunchback and his friends, that at last they said that I should have my own way; and that if I pleased to go up to London, and bring down the painter of Lazarus to paint the mayor, I might; so they then bade me farewell, and I have come up to London." "To put a hundred pounds into the hands of--" "A better man than myself," said my brother, "of course." "And have you come up at your own expense ?" "Yes," said my brother, "I have come up at my own expense." I made no answer, but looked in my brother's face.

We then returned to the former subjects of conversation, talking of the dead, my mother, and the dog.
After some time my brother said, "I will now go to the painter, and communicate to him the business which has brought me to town; and, if you please, I will take you with me and introduce you to him." Having expressed my willingness, we descended into the street..