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- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/230 16:51 +2,175 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " was taken aback to find that most of them reminded him either of Henley or of Swinburne. It needed the splendour of Cronshaw's delivery to make them personal. He expressed his disappointment to Lawson, who carelessly repeated his words; and next time Philip went to the Closerie des Lilas the poet turned to him with his sleek smile: "I hear you don't think much of my verses." Philip was embarrassed. "I don't know about that," he answered. "I enjoyed...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/229 16:50 +2,572 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " language and would often report some phrase which reeked of the gutter. He referred to her ironically as ''la fille de mon concierge''. Cronshaw was very poor. He earned a bare subsistence by writing on the exhibitions of pictures for one or two English papers, and he did a certain amount of translating. He had been on the staff of an English paper in Paris, but had been dismissed for drunkenness; he still however did odd jobs for it, describing sales...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/228 16:48 +2,282 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " {{c|{{larger|XLV}}}} {{small-caps|Philip}} soon realised that the spirit which informed his friends was Cronshaw's. It was from him that Lawson got his paradoxes; and even Clutton, who strained after individuality, expressed himself in the terms he had insensibly acquired from the older man. It was his ideas that they bandied about at table, and on his authority they formed their judgments. They made up for the respect with which unconsciously they tre...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
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- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/227 16:46 +2,230 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " used them. He had quite made up his mind that nothing would induce him ever to see her again. He had not written for so long that it seemed hardly worth while to write now. He made up his mind not to read the letter. "I daresay she won't write again," he said to himself. "She can't help seeing the thing's over. After all, she was old enough to be my mother; she ought to have known better." For an hour or two he felt a little uncomfortable. His attitu...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/226 16:45 +2,538 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " own. It was extraordinary how difficult these things were in Paris. Lawson would become acquainted with some young thing and make an appointment; for twenty-four hours he would be all in a flutter and describe the charmer at length to everyone he met; but she never by any chance turned up at the time fixed. He would come to Gravier's very late, ill-tempered, and exclaim: "Confound it, another rabbit! I don't know why it is they don't like me. I suppos...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/225 16:44 +2,629 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " painting but of seeing. Philip felt in him something strangely original. At Gravier's where they ate, and in the evening at the Versailles or at the Closerie des Lilas Clutton was inclined to taciturnity. He sat quietly, with a sardonic expression on his gaunt face, and spoke only when the opportunity occurred to throw in a witticism. He liked a butt and was most cheerful when someone was there on whom he could exercise his sarcasm. He seldom talked o...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/224 16:43 +2,648 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " refuse with brutal rudeness. The other fellows, Lawson, Clutton, Flanagan, chaffed him about her. "You be careful, my lad," they said, "she's in love with you." "Oh, what nonsense," he laughed. The thought that Miss Price could be in love with anyone was preposterous. It made him shudder when he thought of her uncomeliness, the bedraggled hair and the dirty hands, the brown dress she always wore, stained and ragged at the hem: he supposed she was h...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/223 16:43 +2,408 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " "No, I won't go there, it looks too expensive." She walked on firmly, and Philip was obliged to follow. A few steps brought them to a smaller restaurant, where a dozen people were already lunching on the pavement under an awning; on the window was announced in large white letters: ''Déjeuner 1.25, vin compris''. "We couldn't have anything cheaper than this, and it looks quite all right." They sat down at a vacant table and waited for the omelette whi...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/222 16:41 +1,977 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " {{c|{{larger|XLIV }}}} {{small-caps|But}} notwithstanding when Miss Price on the following Sunday offered to take him to the Louvre Philip accepted. She showed him Monna Lisa. He looked at it with a slight feeling of disappointment, but he had read till he knew by heart the jewelled words with which Walter Pater has added beauty to the most famous picture in the world; and these now he repeated to Miss Price. "That's all literature," she said, a littl...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/221 16:40 +1,678 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " Miss Price told him a long, involved story, which made out that Mrs. Otter, a humdrum and respectable little person, had scabrous intrigues. Then she talked of Ruth Chalice, the girl whom Foinet had praised that morning. "She's been with every one of the fellows at the studio. She's nothing better than a street-walker. And she's dirty. She hasn't had a bath for a month, I know it for a fact." Philip listened uncomfortably. He had heard already that v...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/220 16:40 +2,404 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " "I don't know," he answered helplessly. "You can take it from me that it's the best thing in the gallery except perhaps Whistler's portrait of his mother." She gave him a certain time to contemplate the masterpiece and then took him to a picture representing a railway-station. "Look, here's a Monet," she said. "It's the Gare St. Lazare." "But the railway lines aren't parallel," said Philip. "What does that matter?" she asked, with a haughty air. P...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
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- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/219 16:39 +2,228 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " She walked past him, out of the studio, and Philip, with a shrug of the shoulders, limped along to Gravier's for luncheon. "It served her right," said Lawson, when Philip told him what had happened. "Ill-tempered slut." Lawson was very sensitive to criticism and, in order to avoid it, never went to the studio when Foinet was coming. "I don't want other people's opinion of my work," he said. "I know myself if it's good or bad." "You mean you don't w...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
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- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/218 16:37 +2,249 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " so long and could understand French well enough, she could hardly speak two words. "He's got no right to treat me like that. My money's as good as anyone else's. I pay him to teach me. That's not teaching me." "What does she say? What does she say?" asked Foinet. Mrs. Otter hesitated to translate, and Miss Price repeated in execrable French. "''Je vous paye pour m'apprendre''." His eyes flashed with rage, he raised his voice and shook his fist. '...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/217 16:31 +2,439 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " seemed in a pleasant mood; he did not say much to her, but with quick, determined strokes of her charcoal pointed out her errors. Miss Chalice beamed with pleasure when he rose. He came to Clutton, and by this time Philip was nervous too, but Mrs. Otter had promised to make things easy for him. Foinet stood for a moment in front of Clutton's work, biting his thumb silently, then absent-mindedly spat out upon the canvas the little piece of skin which he...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/216 16:29 +2,438 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " at the studio, notwithstanding the protests of those who suffered too bitterly from his attacks, because there could be no doubt that he was one of the best masters in Paris. Sometimes the old model who kept the school ventured to remonstrate with him, but his expostulations quickly gave way before the violent insolence of the painter to abject apologies. It was Foinet with whom Philip first came in contact. He was already in the studio when Philip ar...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/215 16:28 +2,386 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " {{c|{{larger|XLIII}}}} {{small-caps|On}} Tuesdays and Fridays masters spent the morning at Amitrano's, criticising the work done. In France the painter earns little unless he paints portraits and is patronised by rich Americans; and men of reputation are glad to increase their incomes by spending two or three hours once a week at one of the numerous studios where art is taught. Tuesday was the day upon which Michel Rollin came to Amitrano's. He was an...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/214 16:27 +1,361 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " He spoke with rotund delivery. He chose his words carefully. He mingled wisdom and nonsense in the most astounding manner, gravely making fun of his hearers at one moment, and at the next playfully giving them sound advice. He talked of art, and literature, and life. He was by turns devout and obscene, merry and lachrymose. He grew remarkably drunk, and then he began to recite poetry, his own and Milton's, his own and Shelley's, his own and Kit Marlowe...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/213 16:26 +2,314 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " subject that was suggested to him. Cronshaw had evidently been there lately. "He talked very well, but he talked nonsense. He talked about art as though it were the most important thing in the world." "If it isn't, what are we here for?" asked Philip. "What you're here for I don't know. It is no business of mine. But art is a luxury. Men attach importance only to self-preservation and the propagation of their species. It is only when these instincts...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
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- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/212 16:24 +2,244 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " show off one of the celebrities of the Quarter, grew impatient. Cronshaw was taking his time to wake up that evening, though the saucers at his side indicated that he had at least made an honest attempt to get drunk. Clutton watched the scene with amusement. He fancied there was something of affectation in Cronshaw's minute knowledge of cricket; he liked to tantalise people by talking to them of things that obviously bored them; Clutton threw in a ques...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
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- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/211 16:21 +2,344 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " "He's an extraordinary fellow. You'll find him a bit disappointing at first, he only comes out at his best when he's drunk." "And the nuisance is," added Clutton, "that it takes him a devil of a time to get drunk." When they arrived at the café Lawson told Philip that they would have to go in. There was hardly a bite in the autumn air, but Cronshow had a morbid fear of draughts and even in the warmest weather sat inside. "He knows everyone worth kno...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
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- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/210 16:19 +2,184 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " {{c|{{larger|XLII }}}} {{small-caps|There}} was a general disturbance. Flanagan and two or three more went on to the music-hall, while Philip walked slowly with Clutton and Lawson to the Closerie des Lilas. "You must go to the Gaîté Montparnasse," said Lawson to him. "It's one of the loveliest things in Paris. I'm going to paint it one of these days." Philip, influenced by Hayward, looked upon music-halls with scornful eyes, but he had reached Paris...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/209 16:18 +1,878 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " and no artist should be allowed to live after he's forty; by then a man has done his best work, all he does after that is repetition. Don't you think it was the greatest luck in the world for them that Keats, Shelley, Bonnington, and Byron died early? What a genius we should think Swinburne if he had perished on the day the first series of ''Poems and Ballads'' was published!" The suggestion pleased, for no one at the table was more than twenty-four,...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/208 16:17 +2,363 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " choose to surround objects with a black line, the world will see the black line, and there will be a black line; and if we paint grass red and cows blue, it'll see them red and blue, and, by Heaven, they will be red and blue." "To hell with art," murmured Flanagan. "I want to get ginny." Lawson took no notice of the interruption. "Now look here, when ''Olympia'' was shown at the Salon, Zola—amid the jeers of the philistines and the hisses of the ''p...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/207 16:16 +2,260 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " Luxembourg. He had a handsome face, thin, ascetic, with dark eyes; he wore his fantastic garb with the dashing air of a buccaneer. He had a vast quantity of dark hair which fell constantly over his eyes, and his most frequent gesture was to throw back his head dramatically to get some long wisp out of the way. He began to talk of the ''Olympia'' by Manet, which then hung in the Luxembourg. "I stood in front of it for an hour today, and I tell you it's...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/206 16:13 +2,496 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " since he drank on an empty stomach his spirits presently grew very high. He watched the crowds, and felt all men were his brothers. He was happy. When he reached Gravier's the table at which Clutton sat was full, but as soon as he saw Philip limping along he called out to him. They made room. The dinner was frugal, a plate of soup, a dish of meat, fruit, cheese, and half a bottle of wine; but Philip paid no attention to what he ate. He took note of the...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
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- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/205 16:12 +2,498 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " Philip did not know anything about them, and she told him that from five to six every evening a model sat, from whom anyone who liked could go and draw at the cost of fifty centimes. They had a different model every day, and it was very good practice. "I don't suppose you're good enough yet for that. You'd better wait a bit." "I don't see why I shouldn't try. I haven't got anything else to do." They got up and walked to the studio. Philip could not...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
- diffhist N Page:Maugham - Of Human Bondage, 1915.djvu/204 16:12 +2,205 Ostrea talk contribs (→Not proofread: Created page with " Philip, a little disconcerted, was silent as he lit a cigarette. "Did Clutton say anything about my work?" she asked suddenly. "No, I don't think he did," said Philip. "He's no good, you know. He thinks he's a genius, but he isn't. He's too lazy, for one thing. Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains. The only thing is to peg away. If one only makes up one's mind badly enough to do a thing one can't help doing it." She spoke with a passiona...) Tags: Not proofread EditInSequence
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