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CHAPTER XL.
 D’ARCY SEES BOGY.—THE ACADEMY.—THE PAINTER’S PICTURE.  
The Ammabys were in London.  Amabel preferred the country; but she bore the town as she bore with many other things that were not quite to her taste, including painfully short petticoats, and Mademoiselle, the French governess.  She was in the garden of the square one morning, when D’Arcy ran in.
 
“O Amabel!” he cried, “I’m so glad you’re alone!  Whom do you think I’ve seen?  The boy you called Bogy.  It must be he; I’ve looked in the glass, and oh, he is like me!”
 
“Where did you see him?” asked Amabel.
 
“Well, you know I’ve told you I get up very early just now?”
 
“I wish you wouldn’t tell me,” interrupted Amabel, “when you know Mademoiselle won’t let me get up till half-past eight.  Oh, I wish we were going home this week!”
 
“I’m very sorry, Amabel, but do listen.  I was down by the river, and there he was sketching; and oh, so beautifully!  I shall burn all my copies; I can never draw like him.  Amabel, he is awfully like me, and he must be very near my age.  He’s like what people’s twin-brothers are, you know.  I wish he were my twin-brother!”
 
“He couldn’t be your twin-brother,” said Amabel, gravely; “he’s not a gentleman.”
 
“Well, he’s not exactly not a gentleman,” said D’Arcy.  “However, I asked him if he sent his pictures to the Academy, and he said no, but his master does, the artist he lives with.  And he told me his master’s name, and the number of his pictures; and I’ve brought you a catalogue, and the numbers are 401, 402, and 403.  And we are going to the Academy this afternoon, and I’ve asked mamma to ask Lady Louisa to let you come with us.  But don’t say any thing about me and the boy, for I don’t want it to be known I have been out early.”
 
At this moment Mademoiselle, who had been looking into the garden from an upper window, hastened to fetch Amabel indoors.
 
 
It was between three and four o’clock in the afternoon, and the Academy was crowded.  The crush was so oppressive that Lady Adelaide wanted to go away, but D’Arcy had expressed a wish to see No. 401, and D’Arcy&rsqu............
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