Agatha Christie - The Harlequin Tea Set And Other Stories by Harlequin Tea Set The

Author:Harlequin Tea Set The [The, Harlequin Tea Set]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

AGATHA CHRISTIE

And now he had completed his fourth work—a portrait of his wife. We had been invited to see and criticize. Everard himself scowled and looked out of the window; Isobel Loring moved amongst the guests, talking technique with unerring accuracy.

We made comments. We had to. We praised the painting of the pink satin. The treatment of that, we said, was really marvelous. Nobody had painted satin in quite that way before.

Mrs. Lemprire, who is one of the most intelligent art critics I know, took me aside almost at once.

“Georgie,” she said, “what has he done to himself?.” The thing’s dead. It’s smooth. It’s—oh! its damnable.” “Portrait of a Lady in Pink Satin?” I suggested.

“Exactly. And yet the technique’s perfect. And the care! There’s enough work there for sixteen pictures.” “Too much work?” I suggested.

“Perhaps that’s it. If there ever was anything there, he’s killed it. An extremely beautiful woman in a pink satin dress. Why not a colored photograph?”

“Why not?” I agreed. “Do you suppose he knows?” “Of course he knows,” said Mrs. Lemprire scornfully. “Don’t you see the man’s on edge? It comes, I daresay, of mixing up sentiment and business. He’s put his whole soul into painting Isobel, because she is Iso-bel, and in sparing her, he’s lost her. He’s been too kind. You’ve got to—to destroy the flesh before you can get at the soul sometimes.”

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