"Just the answering machine
I started having... "Just the answering machine
I started having visions of Sarasota Memorial"I
don't like the sound of that
"Perhaps the three of them are on their way here
right now," Rosenblatt said
"I think that's unlikelyShe's gotten very frail
and short of breathCan't even use her walker
anymore
"I'm sure the situation will resolve itself,"
Jimmy said"Meanwhile, we should raise a glass
"Must raise a glass, Edgar," Dario added
"Thanks, you guys, that's very kind, and I'd be
happy to have a drink with you, but my family's
outside and I want to walk around with them while
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they look at the rest of my pictures, if that's
all right
Jimmy said,
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Dario interrupted, speaking quietly"Edgar, the
show's a sell"Beg your pardon?"
"We didn't think you'd had a chance to get around
and see all the red dots," Jimmy saidHe was
smiling, his color so high he might have been
blushing"Every painting and sketch that was for
sale has been sold
Jacob Rosenblatt, the accountant, said: "Thirty
paintings and fourteen sketchesI watched as Dario
turned and this time took a tray of glasses from
the shelf behind the deskThey were in the same
floral pattern as the Perrier-Jouët bottle"But
the price you put on Girl and Ship No7 was forty
thousand dollars!"
From the pocket of his
chanel purses bags plain black suit,
Rosenblatt took a curl of paper that had to have
come from an adding machine"The paintings
fetched four hundred and eighty-seven thousand
dollars, the sketches an additional nineteenThe
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total comes to a little over half a million
dollarsIt's the greatest sum the Scoto has ever
taken in during the exhibition of a single
artist's work
"All of them?" I said in a voice so tiny I could
hardly hear it myselfI looked at Dario as he put
a champagne glass in my hand"If you had decided to sell Girl and
Ship No8, I believe that one alone would have
fetched a hundred thousand dollars
"Twice that," Jimmy said
"To Edgar
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brilliant career!" Rosenblatt said, and raised his
glassWe raised our glasses and drank, not
knowing that my brilliant career was, for all
practical purposes, at an end
We caught a break there, muchacho
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Tom Riley fell in beside me as I moved back
through the crowd toward my family, smiling and
shaking conversational gambits as fast as I could
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"Boss, these are incredible," he said, "but
they're a little spooky, too
"I guess that's a compliment," I saidThe truth
was, talking to Tom felt spooky, knowing what I
did about him
"It's definitely a compliment," he said"Listen,
you're headed for your family
And he
chanel handbags for sale started to do just that, but I grabbed him
by the elbow
"Stick with me," I said"Together we can repel
all boardersOn my own, I may not get to Pam and
the girls until nine o'clockOld Tommy looked goodHe'd added some
pounds since that day at Lake Phalen, but I'd read
that antidepressants sometimes do that, especially
to menOn him, a little more weight was okayThe
hollows under his eyes had filled in
"How've you been, Tom?"
"Well He lifted one
hand in the air, as if to wave off a commiseration
I hadn't offered"It's a chemical imbalance thing,
and it's a bitch getting used to the pillsThey
muddy up your thinking at first - they did
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