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res me," said Clovis to his iournalist friend. "She's so fond e journalist, "of the story of Henri Deplis. Have I ever told Luxemburg. On maturer of talking of certain pictures as 'growing on one, as th it [to] you?" Clovis shook his head. reflection he became a commercial tra Italy when news reached him from home that a legacy? from a distant Henri Deplis was by birth a native of the Grand Duchy of Luxe veller. His business activities frequently took hinm beyond the limits of the Grand Duchy, and he was stopping in a smian i deceased relative 10 had fallen to his share "It was not a large legacy, even from the modest standpoint o impelled him towards some seemingly harmless extravagances. In p patronise local art as represented by the tattoo-needles of Signor Pincini was, f Henri Deplis, but i particular it led him to Andreas Pincini. Signor pernaps, the most brilliant master of tattoo craft that Italy had ever known, but 15 his circumstances were decidedly impoverished, and for the sum of six n gladly undertook to cover his client's back, from the collar-bone down to a glowing representation of the Fall of Icarus.3 The design, when finally developed, was a slight disappointment to Monsieur Deplis, who had suspected Icarus of bing a fortress taken by Wallenstein in the Thirty Years' War but he was more than satisfied with the 20 execution of the work, which was acclaimed by all who had the privilege of seeing it as Pincini's masterpiece "It was his greatest effort, and his last. Without even waiting to be paid, the illustrious craftsman departed this life, and was buried under an ornate tombstone, who cherubs would have afforded singularly little scope for the exercise of his favourite art 25 There remained, however, the widow Pincini, to whom the six hundred francs were due And thereupon arose the great crisis in the life of Henri Deplis, traveller of commerce. The legacy, under the stress of numerous little calls on its substance,5 had dwindled to very insignificant proportions, and when a pressing wine bill and sundry other current accounts had been paid, there remained little more than 430 francs to offer to the widow. The lady 30 was properly indignant, not wholly, as she volubly explained, on account of the suggested writing-off of 170 francs, but also at the attempt to depreciate the value of her late husband's acknowledged masterpiece. In a weeks time Deplis was obliged to reduce his offer to 405 francs, which circumstance fanned the widow's indignation into a fury. She cancelled the sale of the work of art, and a few days later Deplis learned with a sense of

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1. Correct Answer - 2

It reveals that deplis was impulsive in the decisions.

2. Correct Answer - 2

It was as a result of her vengence.

3. Correct Answer - 4

Here, it means that she left inconspicuously.

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