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to make more modelling and to push some part to its farthest extent - that is as far as I could—  He always leaves one with the feeling that the next time you have got to do it—  He told me last time that I had better go on with the drawing - not to paint—  There were only three compositions  Every one was crowding around to hear, and he picked up mine and began 'hm-ming over it - and saying "c'est pas mal" and "c'est très bien ça - le sentiment est très bien.  Moving his finger around the heads - and then he put it down and said "je n'ai pas vu les autres mais je sais bien que c'est la meillure [[meilleure]]"—   He looked at the others  said they were "un peu naif [[naïf]]"  and that they had'nt read the story correctly, and then he went back to mine - "mais ça" etc - "qui a fait-ça?"  M'lle Cahen was at his elbow ready with my name—  And he turned to me and said "Ç'est vous Madmoiselle [[Mademoiselle]]?"  "Vous avez faits beaucoup de tableaux?" To which I replied that I had done many portraits but scarcely any compositions before coming here—  He seemed surprised and turned to Mlle Cahen and told her she must nail it up on the wall—  This was the crowning hour except that May heard at Lazar's from one of The Passage girls that he said that it was the best composition that had ever been made in the school - but I can hardly [[text continues on page 52]]

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for those interested, a quick Google Translate of her prof's comments: it's not bad this is very good, the feeling is very good I haven't seen the others but I know it's the best [referring to the other students' work] a little naive [returning to her work] but this, who made this? It's you Miss? Have you done a lot of paintings?