The Tragic Muse
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You are Nick Dormer, cousin Peter at your side and your mother measuring your future in committee meetings, standing before a Paris Salon portrait you cannot stop studying. Gabriel Nash asks whether you still draw; word arrives that the seat at Harsh has opened; and Julia Dallow, who might marry you, wants a member of Parliament, not a painter. You wire your acceptance but add, against your mother's wish, that you mean to keep painting too, and Gabriel hands you an actress's address to prove it.
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- The Portrait Behind the PoliticsParis Salon