CHAPTER XXIV. THE JOY OF LIFE.

THE YEARS EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-ONE TO EIGHTEEN EIGHTY-FOUR 210

_Takes a Studio at No. 13 Tite Street--His "Joyousness"-- Letters to the Press--His "Amazing" Costumes--Portrait of Lady Meux--His Other Sitters--Mrs. Marzetti's Account of the Painting of "The Blue Girl"--Lady Archibald Campbell's Reminiscences of the Sittings for her Portrait--Portrait of M. Duret--"The Paddon Papers"--Second Exhibition of Venice Etchings at the Fine Art Society's--Excitement it created-- The "Carlyle" at Edinburgh--Proposal to buy it for Scottish National Portrait Gallery--Comes to nothing--Whistler involved in a Church Congress_