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Apropos of his spats with Sickert he remarked, "Yes, we are always forgiving Walter."
Another pupil, foreseeing the end of Whistler as president of the Royal Society of British Artists, resigned some months before the time. "The early rat," said Whistler, grimly, "the first to leave the sinking ship."
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In the Fine Art Society's gallery one day he spoke to a knighted R.A.
"Who was that?" Starr asked.
"Really, now, I forget," was the reply. "But whoever it was it's some one of no importance, you know, no importance whatever."
* * * * *
At an exhibition of Doré's pictures Whistler asked an attendant if a certain academician's large religious picture was not on view.
"No," said the man; "it's much lower down!"
"Impossible!" replied Whistler, gleefully.