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 I am an amateur; I have never taken money for painting a picture."

"Oh!" she sighed, with a little reluctant laugh. "You are incorrigible!"

"I am!" he answered, gratefully. "Thank you for saying so."

She seated herself and opened her box.

"If you are going to paint," she said, "don't you think you had better be about it?"

"Oh! To be sure. Thank you for reminding me; for a moment I had completely forgotten that I was a painter."

"What are you going to do?"

"Do? Why, paint."

"I mean what are you going to paint?" she explained, as she set fresh color on her palette.

"Oh, I think," he replied, care