"I can die peacefully because I seen a great love." "In the Masters' house." "Tell Mr. Michael to bring my Algerian sketches to me." "I would like to speak with Mr. Zoret" "the butler." "the princess." "Switt, the journalist." "Claude Zoret, the Master." ""Already I have been offered 30000 dollars for these sketches, but I could not bring myself, to let go of them."" "Why not?" "we are not going thus to sell our most beautiful memories." "Please, tell Mr. Zoret," "I will return again before the beginning of the opera." "So, one of these Russian princesses whom at all costs love to be painted by the Master." "have they for instance a monopoly on being painted by the Master?" "How come you were made a model by the Master, and almost his son?" "It was four years ago..." "These sketches are not worth anything" "Come back when you have learned to see correctly." "I would like to paint to you!" "Would you model for me?" "You owe much to him, Michael!" "But the Master also must thank you!" "His glory was born on the paintings in which you modelled." "At table, the conversation turns to death." "It is strange how, sometimes I fear dying so much that I do not know like thinking of it." "I run away from the horror!" "I do not fear death because prediction must be fulfilled" "I cannot imagine a more beautiful end than to die for being adored" "For me, death is simply the last stage of life" "You know that your conversation has inspired in me a new picture?" "I want to paint Caesar assassinated by Brutus, his adoptive son." "and who will look like Brutus?" "Switt takes notes from our table conversation for the work that he is writing on the Master" "What is your prediction, Duke, of what was spoken at table?" "That the last Monthieu will know a great happiness" "... and will pay with his life" "The butler announces to them that the carriage is leaving" "I regret much, I never paint pictures to order" "but since there is time" "I am nevertheless going to paint to you" "Michael, the spotlight!" "The finances of the princess must be rather disordered" "Possibly she hopes to increase her credit by being painted by the Master." "There we are!" "I can come in the morning for the first pose?" "The "winner" is my best picture," "I give it to you" "There will come a day when all will belong to you" "Never had a picture given as much pain to Master as the picture of princess Zamikow" "You have been up three nights without sleeping!" "Is that sensible?" "When I am alone," "I see it in front of me, it goes well" "But when she is seated here, everything vanishes" "Where is Michael?" "He goes every afternoon to the Opera to ogle a young ballerina ." "Go now, I want to work" "I will return after food" "You are the culprit of my sleepless nights, princess" "Serve the food, we will eat!" "We do not wait for Michael?" "Today, we will drink in English glasses" "The gentleman and the lady are already seated at table" "You have sat down to eat without me?" "Never have I been treated thus before" "Never!" "It is your eyes" "I cannot render them" "It looks right?" "You try!" "Yes, now, those are her eyes!" "Only the youth can guess that" "Good eyes" "It was Michael who painted them" "How did you knew my eyes so well?" "Where have you been throughout this time?" "I was in the country." "Unfortunately I must leave" "I go to the theater this evening." "You are the only one that does not suspect to anything" "with regard to Michael and Zamikow" "Ah so" "Tell the butler to take the English glasses to my apartment" "the Master gave permission" "Take away the board," "Mr. Michael has gone out." "Close the window" "On this evening, the ballet danced" "Tchaikovski's "Swan Lake"" "You do not feel, do not see what I suffer?" "Have pity on me, my friend..." "Do you desire to have supper with us after the performance, Mr. Switt?" "Go now, we meet soon" "I want only to believe that the eternity exists." "The visits of Michael to the Master were made more and more rarely only dictated by the last conscience of having to" "The thing itself is just a triviality" "He came to request lately to me large amounts of money several times" "Youth wants to live totally and youth costs money" "Book this sum to my account!" "From now on you will have your own account with my banker." "and then you will be able to begin a new page" "Now leave me alone, Michael" ""We could see in its last work a picture of princess Z." "no brush stroke truer only the eyes make an exception." "the effect is so unrealistic that we would swear that the eyes have been painted by another hand "" "Who knows the story of the eyes of the Zamikow?" "Us" "Yes, and he?" "Perhaps that to somebody he says the truth and the truth to you, is... that you hated him from first day" "Because he broke into my life, where you wanted to be the only one that played a role" "Nobody knows when I am unique" "Nobody has the right to increase to my solitude" "Claude Zoret, I request to you... that you save the bitterer deceptions." "Let go of the boy" "No, Charles," "I do not want to die without my boy." "Why you spoke to me never of this?" "Call Mercier, the art dealer" "That passes immediately" "Calm yourself, my darling" "Everything is going to fix itself, I found a solution." "Leave Michael's place setting" "Where is Michael?" "painting in the country." "And Alice?" "How is she?" "She is well, thanks" "Mr. Leblanc, art dealer" "I requested that you came, Mr. Leblanc, because I would like through you to sell my "Caesar and Brutus"" "That is gorgeous, but..." "How to say, I mean... an atmosphere can be cool, not true?" "and atmosphere can be warm" "So in this situation" "Another one of your canvases is on the market..." "The "Conqueror"..." "I want to rescue the "Conqueror"" "under a pseudonym" "the price little concerns me" "Put the picture in the appartment of Michael, that is its place." "As of that day," "Claude Zoret closed the door to everybody to create his masterpiece completely alone and when this was finished," "Michael returned." "Bring wine!" "For the sky," "I have been inspired by the Algerian sketches" "Today, for the celebration of return of Michael, we will drink in English glasses" "I have borrowed them" "I have enough of you pretending" "I have enough of being your model, the instrument of your glory" "I want finally to be a free man," "Not to depend anymore on your good thanks" "Princess Zamikow asks for Mr. Michael to the telephone." "I will never respond to you to what you've just said to me, Michael." "The homecoming...." "Why you do not say anything?" "speak then" "What could I say, that does not make you suffer?" "finally came the day in which the Master exposed his work." "the Duchess, widow of Monthieu Wilhelmine Sandrock" "Pardon my preoccupation, Mr. Zoret:" "Have you seen my son?" "That is a man who has lost all" "My girl, pardon this question of a tormented mother:" "Do you know where is my son?" "Tell Alice that the last Monthieu has paid for his happiness" "the painter of the pain... the glory of the nation..." "Where is Michael?" "Soon calm reigned again in the mansion of the Master." "I am sorry I could not come," "I have brought the criticism with me" "I can read it for you?" "Not now." "I have brought the criticism with me" "I can read it for you?" "All write about the sky of your work is the most wonderful thing that you have ever painted" "Now, we propose to you 60000 dollars for the sketches" "To the fact, where are your Algerian sketches?" "I would much like to see them again" "But Mr. Michael has just left.." "with a large folder of drawings" "Possibly he has..." "Is true nevertheless," "I had forgotten... that I gave the sketches to him" "Yes, Charles, now I am tired" "I want to sleep now, to sleep..." "But in the course at night, the fate of the Master is fulfilled." "The Master is dying." "Switt." "Take this as fast as is possible to Mr. Michael" "I, Claude Zoret, that knows the solitude in this world," "I will my last dispositions here" "All my goods must go to my adoptive son, Eugène Michael." "Have you found Michael?" "Is he coming soon?" "Mr. Michael will not be spoken to" "I want to rest in the middle of a field" "Where germinate the seeds and grows the grass, and nobody will have to know the place where I am buried," "Swear that for me?" "Jules, my friend, do not cry more." "I go where my heart will know rest" "Why you smile, Claude?" "Charles, now I can die peacefully." "because I knew a great love" "Mr. Michael, the Master has died!" "Be quiet,be still..." "I am with you." "The End"