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is an afternoon costume class for men and women which is very nice - and has some pretty strong workers in it and I am awfully torn between it and Lasar's afternoon - I have given up Stevens because he is so absorbed in his panorama that his pupils say they don't get any attention at all - He comes in and says "Pas mal" all around and then goes out - How I hate those two words! The afternoon Professors at Colorossi's are very poor. We are to have Constant at Julian's for another month. He is very good but I never got very much teaching out of any of them - they sit down and praise my work mildly and make a few small corrections - Constant said my drawing was virile and energetic and he told almost all the others they had "trop de moelleux" two or three of the English girls draw like Sir Frederick Leighton They are lovely gentle little things and such a contrast to all the horrid French girls - The other day, or rather last week I tried an effect of strong light and shade, three quarter size, and was horribly afraid of Courtois, who is terribly severe was sure he would say I had been amusing myself etc but he came and after the awful argument of silence while he looked at it he looked up