At the mention of the hundred pounds, I observed the eyes of the painter glisten.

"Really," said he, when my brother had concluded, "it was very kind to think of me.

I am not very fond of painting portraits; but a mayor is a mayor, and there is something grand in that idea of the Norman arch.

I'll go; moreover, I am just at this moment confoundedly in need of money, and when you knocked at the door, I don't mind telling you, I thought it was some dun.

I don't know how it is, but in the capital they have no taste for the heroic, they will scarce look at a heroic picture; I am glad to hear that they have better taste in the provinces.