FEARLESSNESS IN PAINTING
quite a large canvas, using a palette which was dotted with mere pin-points of color. The picture was well arranged and well "seen," but with that palette of course good painting was impossible. Carroll was a poor man. We were all aware that his allowance was barely sufficient to pay for the simplest of food and lodging; and the cost of artist's materials must have been a serious drain upon his slender resources. So I hesitated long before asking for his colorbox. There was but one thing to do, however; so, resolutely smothering all compunctions, I seized upon the precious tube of madder and squeezed out a most generous supply. Carroll jumped nearly out of his boots.
"Good gracious!" he exclaimed, "why that amount would last me two weeks at least."
My only reply was to follow suit with the
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