obleman among ress, one of to suffer by a great mans side, rive to understand ing t of poverty and love as bravely and dauntlessly as ot to bear ty. t stole over Gillettes lips filled t , and rivaled tness of t ale , absorbed in let in love before art engrossed it.

    quot;Listen, Gillette. Come ;

    ters knee.  grace and beauty, and t fairness of outward form, lighin.

    quot;O; ;I so tell ;

    quot;A secret?quot; s;I must kno!quot;

    Poussin was absorbed in his dreams.

    quot;Do tell it me!quot;

    quot;Gillette... poor beloved !...quot;

    quot;O somet;

    quot;Yes.quot;

    quot;If you  once more for you as I did t; sinued ulance, quot;I  to do suc t all, and yet you look at me--quot;

    quot;ould you rat;

    quot;Per; she said.

    quot;ell,quot; said Poussin gravely, quot;and if, for to come, if to make me a great painter, you must sit to some one else?quot;

    quot;You may try me,quot; s;you knoe  I .quot;

    Poussins ; o be overpoolerable joy or sorrow.

    quot;Listen,quot; s t, quot;I told you, Nick, t I  I never promised you t I in my lifetime ;

    quot;Your love?quot; cried tist.

    quot;If I so anoto your fancies ural and simple t not? Even against my oo do t for anot upon it!quot;

    quot;Forgive me, my Gillette,quot; said ter, falling upon ;I cake. I  to love and not to paint. Peris and all its secrets!quot;

    Gillette looked admiringly at asy of riump; s instinctively t art was lai