Porbus hesitated; he dared not speak, but the anxiety revealed in the old man's features was so cruel that he could only point to the canvas and stammer, "See for yourself!"
Honoré de Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece, Richard Howard, trans., New York: New York Review Books, 2001, p. 43
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