Chapter XIX
THE Colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five seconds more.
“Portrait,” he said. “You ought to relax too. That’s the only thing that is going to be difficult about you. That’s what they call the static element in painting. You know, Portrait, that almost no pictures, paintings rather, move at all. A few do. But not many.
“I wish that your mistress was here and we could have movement. How do girls like you and she know so much so damn young and be so beautiful?
“With us, if a girl is really beautiful, she comes from Texas and maybe, with luck, she can tell you what month it is. They can all count good though.
“They teach them how to count, and keep their legs together, and how to put their hair up in pin curls. Sometime, portrait,
