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 I have never shown them to any one in years. I am showing them to you because I know you understand these things. I have seen your house. I have seen your beautiful things. You see it is the same woman who posed for both. . . . The one is called 'The Girl in the Hat'. . . the other is 'The Byzantine Empress.' Theodora, you know, who was born a slave girl."