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The Gentle Art of Making Enemies

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Excerpt: ...hardens her heart, and hies her off to the East, to find, among the opium-eaters of Nankin, a favourite with whom she lingers fondly-caressing his blue porcelain, and painting his coy (p. 157) maidens, and marking his plates with her six marks of choice-indifferent in her companionship with him, to all save the virtue of his refinement! He it is who calls her-he who holds her! And again to the West, that her next lover may bring together the Gallery at Madrid, and show to the world how the Master towers above all; and in their intimacy they revel, he and she, in this knowledge; and he knows the happiness untasted by other mortal. She is proud of her comrade, and promises that in after-years, others shall pass that way, and understand. So in all time does this superb one cast about for the man worthy her love-and Art seeks the Artist alone. Where he is, there she appears, and remains with him-loving and fruitful-turning never aside in moments of hope deferred-of insult-and of ribald misunderstanding; and when he dies she sadly takes her flight, though loitering yet in the land, from fond association, but refusing to be consoled.33 33 And so have we the ephemeral influence of the Master's memory-the afterglow, in which are warmed, for a while, the worker and disciple. With the man, then, and not with the multitude, are her intimacies; and in the book of her life the names inscribed are few-scant, indeed, the list of those who have helped to write her story of love and beauty. From (p. 158) the sunny morning, when, with her glorious Greek relenting, she yielded up the secret of repeated line, as, with his hand in hers, together they marked in marble, the measured rhyme of lovely limb and draperies flowing in unison, to the day when she dipped the Spaniard's brush in light and air, and made his people live within their frames, and stand upon their legs , that all nobility and sweetness, and...