Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 2. Gustave Flaubert

their influence to obtain the thing for him.

      Deslauriers spoke about it again, and pressed him on the point, urging that the artist's claims were reasonable.

      "I am sure that for a sum of, perhaps, five hundred francs – "

      "Oh, give it to him! Wait! here it is!" said Frederick.

      The picture was brought the same evening. It appeared to him a still more atrocious daub than when he had seen it first. The half-tints and the shades were darkened under the excessive retouchings, and they seemed obscured when brought into relation with the lights, which, having remained very brilliant here and there, destroyed the harmony of the entire picture.