Send Me Safely Back Again
“‘You always mix your colours too brightly. And your nymphs look fat and drunk.’ ‘The best kind,’ said José-Maria Espinosa. ‘Bacchus would approve.’ He leaned closer, looking over Hanley’s shoulder as the Englishman sat cross-legged beside the wall of the bridge and sketched.
‘Did no one ever tell you that it is the height of bad manners to watch an artist at work?’ Hanley still did not look back.
‘Genius grants considerable licence.’ ‘You must remember this day, Chasseur Lebeque,’ said Hanley t...o the French light infantryman who was acting as his guard this afternoon. ‘For it seems we are in the presence of genius.’ ‘Very good, sir. I’ll write and tell my mother all about it.’ Lebeque had taken off his shoes and gaiters and was sitting on the parapet, with his legs dangling over the swollen waters of the Guadiana. He had bent a piece of wire into a hook, tied it to a string and lowered the line into the river.
‘Caught anything yet?’ asked Hanley.MoreLess
‘Did no one ever tell you that it is the height of bad manners to watch an artist at work?’ Hanley still did not look back.
‘Genius grants considerable licence.’ ‘You must remember this day, Chasseur Lebeque,’ said Hanley t...o the French light infantryman who was acting as his guard this afternoon. ‘For it seems we are in the presence of genius.’ ‘Very good, sir. I’ll write and tell my mother all about it.’ Lebeque had taken off his shoes and gaiters and was sitting on the parapet, with his legs dangling over the swollen waters of the Guadiana. He had bent a piece of wire into a hook, tied it to a string and lowered the line into the river.
‘Caught anything yet?’ asked Hanley.MoreLess
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