"
"Go on," shouted Eric, "he is our own brother, Mae, after all, you see.
Fancy my Lord Utilitarian turning to break a lance in defence of beauty.
Edith, you and the picture-galleries are to blame for this."
Mae had been paying great attention to her rolls and coffee, and very
little apparently to the conversation, but she spoke eagerly now.
"Their masters do not daub. They do hold palettes full of the strongest,
richest colors, and dare lay them, in vivid flecks, on their canvas.
They do not care if they may offend some modern cultivated eyes, used
only to the invisible blues and shadowy greens and that host of cold,
lifeless, toneless grays, of refined conventional art. They know well
enough that their satisfying reds and browns and golds of rich, free
nature will go to the beating hearts of some of us."
Mae had a way of dashing into conversation abruptly, and the Madden
family had been brought up on argument and table-talk. So the rest of
the party ate their breakfast placidly enough.
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