Scowler, A.R.A., was in, because a young hop-o'-my-thumb dandy, who wore
gold chains and his collars turned down, should spoil the trade and draw
portraits for nothing! Why did none of the young men come to Scowler?
Scowler was obliged to own that Mr. Newcome had considerable talent, and
a good knack at catching a likeness. He could not paint a bit, to be
sure, but his heads in black-and-white were really tolerable; his
sketches of horses very vigorous and lifelike. Mr. Gandish said if Clive
would come for three or four years into his academy he could make
something of him. Mr. Smee shook his head, and said he was afraid, that
kind of loose, desultory study, that keeping of aristocratic company, was
anything but favourable to a young artist--Smee, who would walk five
miles to attend an evening party of ever so little a great man!
CHAPTER XLIV
In which Mr. Charles Honeyman appears in an Amiable Light
Mr. Frederick Bayham waited at Fitzroy Square while Clive was yet talking
with his friends there, and favoured that gentleman with his company home
to the usual smoky refreshment.
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