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him. They
dressed her in one of his wife's gownsa red oneand van Ruijven made sure there was
wine in the painting so he could get her to drink every time they sat together. Sure enough
before the painting was finished she was carrying van Ruijven's child.
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Girl With a Pearl Earring?
What happened to her?
Pieter shrugged. "What happens to girls like that?"
His words froze my blood. Of course I had heard such stories beforebut never one so
close to me. I thought about my dreams of wearing Catharina's clothesof van Ruijven
grasping my chin in the hallwayof him saying "You should paint her" to my master.
Pieter had stopped what he was doinga frown on his face. "Why do you want to know
about her?"
It's nothing I answered lightly. Just something I overheard. It means nothing.
I had not been present when he set up the scene for the painting of the baker's daughter
— I had not yet been assisting him. Nowhoweverthe first time van Ruijven's wife came
to sit for him I was up in the attic workingand could hear what he said. She was a quiet
woman. She did what was asked of her without a sound. Even her fine [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych] did not tap
across the tiled floor. He had her stand by the unshuttered windowthen sit in o
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