One morning Dirk entered the young man's house quickly and said that Blanche had tried to kill herself. The man was really dispirited and the narrator was shoked. The woman had taken poison after a quarelle with Strickland, and then she died at the hospital. The circumstances of Blanche's death necessitated all manner of dreadful formalities, but at last the men were allowed to bury her. After the funeral, Dirk went to his friend and he told him he had made up the mind to go away to Holland. Before leaving Stroeve told about how he decided to be an artist. It happened that he had a knack for drawing at school, at then his mother gave him a box of water-colours as a present. His parents sent him to Amsterdam to try for a scholarship, and he won it. At the end of his story he added that art was the greatest thing in the world. Also Dirk told about his meeting with Strickland. He hadn't been in his studio, he came in and found nothing was changed except a picture which Strickland left. There the nacked Blanche was captured. Stroeve described it as a great, wonderful work of art, he was seized with awe, he couldn't touch it. The man met Charles and asked to come with him to Holland, but the latter only said he had other fish to fry and gave Dirk the picture. Next mounth, the narrator met Strickland who came along with him. At the young man's house they were talking about Blanche and her death, about pictures, and Charles said that she had a perfect body, but he only wanted to paint a hude, and when he finished his picture he took no more interest in her - so, he never loved the woman. Actually, Strickland didn't want love, called it weakness, but sometimes he want a woman, that's all. Then Charles showed the narrator his pictures. The latter was taken aback by what seemed to him clumsiness of his techhique, he knew nothing of the simplification at which he aimed - a still-life of oranges on a plate were not round and lop-sided, and faces looked like caricatures. Well, the man didn't understand what the artist felt or wanted to say and convey. A week later Strickland went to Marseilles, and the narrator never saw him again.
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... the narrator was shoCKed.
The woman had taken poison after a QUAREL (NOT A quarelle) with Strickland ...
... he had made up HISmind to go away to Holland.
Before leaving Stroeve told WHOM? (NO 'about) how he HAD decided to be an artist.
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