The Beldonald Holbein

The Beldonald Holbein, by Henry James
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Title: The Beldonald Holbein
Author: Henry James Release Date: May 8, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #2366]
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Transcribed from the 1922 Macmillan and Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk. Proofing by Andy and his wife.
THE BELDONALD HOLBEIN by Henry James
CHAPTER I
Mrs. Munden had not yet been to my studio on so good a pretext as when she first intimated that it would be quite open to me—should I only care, as she called it, to throw the handkerchief—to paint her beautiful sister-in-law. I needn’t go here more than is essential into the question of Mrs. Munden, who would really, by the way, be a story in herself. She has a manner of her own of putting things, and some of those she has put to me—! Her implication was that Lady Beldonald hadn’t only seen and admired certain examples of my work,
but had literally been prepossessed in favour of the painter’s “personality.” Had I been struck with this sketch I might easily have imagined her ladyship was throwing me the handkerchief. “She hasn’t ...