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@@@@@"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 701 they look at the rest of my pictures, if that's all right Jimmy said, "Understandable, but-" 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-Jou?t bottle"But the price you put on Girl and Ship No7 was forty thousand dollars!" From the pocket of his 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 702 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 Freemantle, at the start of his 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 iv 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 cou