Excerpt from Color Studies and a Mexican Campaign<br><br>Home, nor to do anything at all save mourn the loss that never could be repaired.<br><br>It was generally believed that the reason why Madder's pictures sold-for some of them did sell - was that Rose, even badly painted, was worth buying. All his friends wanted to borrow her, but Madder would never lend her she was too valuable to him as stock-in-trade. And with the odd hun dreds which dropped in from his pictures, with some other odd hundreds that he picked up by painting portaits - things hard as stones, which he was wont to say, mod estly, were good because he had caught completely the style of his old master, Sully - he managed to pick up a living, and to keep the frame-maker from the door.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.