It was a sweet time, to
be able to run along together with no mixed feeling but a sincere friendship.
The boy was six already, and the girl was about four.
The parents were sitting
around the Garden of Fyrdeusch-at least that's how Ricardovich, the owner of
the manor, called the green area surrounded by his walls; the wives were
serving the husbands English scones, bagels, or Danish pastries, who, unlike
them women, let their faces sun-burnt instead of wearing laced-veil hats.
The Family painter and
photographer, Szascha, and his African-European assistant, Mahmoud, were busy
mixing colours after taking a brief camera-shot of the children; there were
actually six of them, four girls and two boys. All around four to seven years
old. Szascha did not ask them deliberately to pose; he simply took their
natural motion and spontaneous expression when they were busy picking daisies
and running along.
Szascha loved to
re-establish the photographs he had taken into a painting. Today, the lucky
picture to be re-painted was the picture of Jeromovich and Liliana, the
daughter of some viscount-descendant from Leningrad, the Byrzinskis, who came
around not merely for a cup of tea but also to ask for some loan.
The Byrzinskis went
bankrupt after World War One. They picked the wrong side. And today, Magdalena,
the wife of Sergey Byrzinski, was shining all over her face seeing her daughter
Liliana who was pictured together with Jeromovich, one of the prime heirs of
Brownsimov dynasty.
Szascha the ancient
painter was believed to bring luck to whichever pairs he portrayed; a pair of
shoes he photographed were sold thousands of dollars, a pair of rabbit could
turn into a gemstone after painted(well-- this one's sort of lacking sense,
however, Magdalena struggled to convince herself that after this Liliana and
she shall have some fortune), and many many examples of Eurasian men and women
who were once his customers were known to be married and lived happily ever
after the time he finished their portrays (in which, of course, the future
spouses in the same frame).
So, Jeromovich Vladev
Brownsimov had actually began his peculiar love story involving Liliana, and to
lead a lesser surprise... her mother Magdalena.
And yet he was merely
six.
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