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1 "I want to have him paint my portrait," he said.
2 But you're only able to paint judges if you know what they say.
3 From under the bed, the painter withdrew a pile of unframed paintings.
4 They're all moorland landscapes, I've painted a lot of moorland landscapes.
5 But they have permission from higher up to get themselves painted like this.
6 I painted one of them once - she's not here today - and ever since then they've been following me about.
7 partly saw and partly guessed at was a large knight in armour who was shown at the far edge of the painting.
8 The lawyer's picture was also an oil painting, whereas this one had been made with pastel colours and was pale and unclear.
9 So I'll start off with the one I'm currently painting, and put the assertion to him when he comes for his sitting this evening.
10 expressed himself in this curt way without any thought, so he was glad when the painter did not take this amiss and picked up a second painting from the floor.
11 Then when he moved the light to the other parts of the picture he found an interment of Christ shown in the usual way, it was also a comparatively new painting.
12 They can't use new people for it, the rules governing how the various grades of officials are painted are so many and varied, and, above all, so secret that no- one outside of certain families even knows them.
13 For instance when the judge I'm painting at present comes he always comes through the door by the bed, and I've even given him a key to this door so that he can wait for me here in the studio when I'm not home.
14 This door was much better illuminated than the rest of the stairway by the light from a small skylight set obliquely above it, it had been put together from unpainted planks of wood and the name 'Titorelli' was painted on it in broad, red brushstrokes.
15 Only, one time these visits became a bit too frequent, I began to tell him off for it, we started talking and I became interested how it was that he could earn a living just by painting, and then I learned to my amazement that his main source of income was painting portraits.
16 Suppose I come back home with a lady I'm going to paint, I open the door with my own key and find the hunchback there or something, by the table painting her lips red with my paintbrush, and meanwhile her little sisters will be keeping guard for her, moving about and causing chaos in every corner of the room.
17 Suppose I come back home with a lady I'm going to paint, I open the door with my own key and find the hunchback there or something, by the table painting her lips red with my paintbrush, and meanwhile her little sisters will be keeping guard for her, moving about and causing chaos in every corner of the room.
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