IV. The Oval Portrait

And then the brush was given,
and then the tint was placed; and, for one moment, the painter stood entranced
before the work which he had wrought; but in the next, while he yet gazed, he
grew tremulous and very pallid, and aghast, and crying with a loud voice, ‘This
is indeed Life itself!’ turned suddenly to regard his beloved:- She was dead! -

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Model `faestock
Frame ~EveyD
Skull ~stuff-stock
Textures ~SerkeTextures ~leeroi1-stock