Marc Chagall Painting

Marc Chagall Painting
pressing crowd. He thanked me and told me he was returning to America three days later, that is to say, on the 26th (the day after the crime). I talked with him about Philadelphia; he told me he had lived there for five-and-twenty years, and that it was there he had met the illustrious Professor Stangerson and his daughter. He drank a great deal of champagne, and when I left him he was very nearly drunk.
Marc Chagall Painting
"Such were my experiences on that evening, and I leave you to imagine what effect the news of the attempted murder of Mademoiselle Stangerson produced on me, - with what force those words pronounced by Monsieur Robert Darzac, 'Must I commit a crime, then, to win you?'
Marc Chagall Painting