“Although I suppose it’s just as well to resign. It must be unpleasant to affiliate yourself with an institution that holds your particular vice in such low regard.” “Don’t call it a vice,” Ben said fiercely. “Bother it all, Hartley. I hadn’t really thought of it that way.” He knew that his brother was invoking this line of argument to make him feel better about resigning, but that made it no less persuasive. “If I were secretly a portrait artist, I wouldn’t join up with one of those groups that believes graven images to be abominations. Perhaps because I wouldn’t want other artists to think I
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