Were they rank amateurs, doing their simple best, or were they clever artists, simulating the awkward crudeness of country girls?

Two English doctors from a hospital ship, white haired and uniformed, were disregarding their repast in order to paint directly in their albums, with a childish painstaking crudeness, the same panorama that was portrayed on the postal cards offered for sale at the door of the restaurant.

He was supersensitive of his roughness, his lack of education and conscious crudeness, and the words of Carolyn June were still in his mind.

Two English doctors from a hospital ship, white haired and uniformed, were disregarding their repast in order to paint directly in their albums, with a childish painstaking crudeness, the same panorama that was portrayed on the postal cards offered for sale at the door of the restaurant.

" Thus terminated the most glorious and bloody of the Mediterranean adventures of the Middle Ages,the clash of western crudeness, almost savage but frank and noble, against the refined malice and decadent civilization of the Greeks,childish and old at the same time,which survived in Byzantium.