Digital heart book

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Of the steps of my misery I cannot tell at length. In
ordinary times what were politically called "loans"
(although they were never meant to be repaid) were
matters of constant course among the students, and many
a man has partly lived on them for years. But my
misfortune befell me at an awkward juncture. Many of
my friends were gone; others were themselves in a
precarious situation. Romney (for instance) was
reduced to tramping Paris in a pair of country sabots,
his only suit of clothes so imperfect (in spite of
cunningly-adjusted pins) that the authorities at the
Luxembourg suggested his withdrawal from the gallery.
Dijon, too, was on a lee-shore, designing clocks and
gas-brackets for a dealer: and the most he could do was
to offer me a corner of his studio where I might work.
My own studio (it will be gathered) I had by that time
lost; and in the course of my expulsion the Genius of
Muskegon was finally separated from her author. To
continue to possess a full-sized statue, a man must
have a studio, a gallery, or at least the freedom of a
back-garden.


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