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THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA.
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across the mind of Colline stopped the artist on the border of this precipice.

A week after, Marcel discovered in what gallery his picture had been placed. While passing through the Faubourg St. Honoré, he stopped in the midst of a group which seemed to regard with curiosity a sign that was being put up over a shop-door. This sign was neither more nor less than Marcel’s picture, which Medicis had sold to a grocer; only “the Passage of the Red Sea” had undergone one more alteration, and been given one more new name. It had received the addition of a steamboat, and was called “the Harbor of Marseilles.” The curious bystanders were bestowing on it a flattering ovation. Marcel returned home in ecstacy at his triumph, muttering to himself, Vox populi, vox Dei.

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