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...married Lucille, became a father, Manhattan apartment-dweller, traveling salesman for a big publisher, he thought everything was fine. But Lucille's clay was commoner than his. Her jealousy and his naivete combined to topple him from grace. Without altogether falling in love he became very very fond of Minnie. When he set up in business for himself it was Minnie who really made things go. At times she was his mistress, but never in office hours. Minnie finally realized that Richard was not the mistress-loving type, that he was essentially a homebody. So she tried...
...their portraits, poor ones are models for the fashion plates he draws for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, the Gazette de Bon Ton. Always impeccably dressed in public, he is sufficiently bohemian to paint in a blue-&-black striped blazer and patent leather pumps. He is fond of gold cigaret cases and dark red carnations with evening clothes. In Paris he lives very quietly. In New York, whither Mme Boutet de Monvel seldom comes, he has a cream-&-black duplex studio and entertains lavishly at the more expensive restaurants. His contemporaries and critics are as respectful of his talent...
...other people. ... He hates waiting more than two minutes for a meal or spending more than five minutes on a meal." He eats anything from diseased camel meat up. Says he, "To me, all food is alike except oysters and parsley. I don't like oysters. I'm not fond of parsley?tastes like a grave." He "avoids regular hours of sleep. . . . Perhaps his most unexpected personal characteristic is that he never looks at a man's face and never recognizes a face. ... He can be relentless to the point of cruelty: the shock of his anger, which...
...exhibit a small, fine-meshed cage strapped to his skin. Friends peeping into the cage beheld a herd of fleas contentedly nipping at the doctor's epidermis. Raillery was always in order. Dr. Dyer is a collector of stamps. Had he now become a flea collector? He is fond of dogs. Was he shielding his dogs from vermin? No, Dr. Dyer would chuckle, and his friends seldom realized that he had ceased his joshing when he said, "They're fleas from a wild rat and I'm trying to see if they'll kill...
...becoming his mistress. But she would not marry him, she was too much older. When Son Dan and Lover Miles became great friends, that complicated things; inevitably increasing quarrels complicated them more. But Evelyn had enough grace under pressure to break away. With Dan growing up and Miles growing fond of a girl his own age, nothing was left for Evelyn. She was glad when she caught pneumonia, willing to die especially when Miles was with...