In Paradise Author:Paul Heyse Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. She was just about to lay her round, white little hand in his, which was rough and muddy from kneading the clay, when a knock at the door caused t... more »hem both to look up and listen. The janitor called out through the key-hole that a strange gentleman wished to speak with Herr Jansen. When he heard that the sculptor had a model sitting to him at the moment, he had asked the janitor to take in his card. With this the janitor pushed the card through a narrow hole in the door made for the purpose. The sculptor, grumbling, went toward the threshold and picked up the card. " Felix, Freiherr von Weiblin- gen." He shook his head thoughtfully. Suddenly he uttered an exclamation of joy. Under the printed name was written, with a pencil, " Icarus." " A good friend of yours ? " queried the girl. He made no answer, but threw down his modeling- tool hastily, hurriedly wiped his hands on a towel, and hastened to the door again. As he opened it, he turned around. " Stay here, Zcnz," he said. " Amuse yourself for a while ; there is a book of pictures ; and, if you should be hungry, you will find something in the cupboard. I will lock the door behind me." In the hall outside there was no one but the janitor, with his bent, long-shaped head, that looked very much like the head of a horse, especially when he spoke ; then he moved his under-jaw, as though he had a bit between his great, yellow teeth. He was a most serviceable old fellow, who had grown gray in the service of art, and had a more delicate judgment than many a professor. He was a thorough expert in preparing a canvas ; and occupied his leisure in studying the chemistry of colors. " Where are the gentlemen, Fridolin ?" asked the sculptor. " There is only one. He is walking in the yard. A very handsome ...« less