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Art Is Long and Lime Is Fleeting

The Lives of Harry Lime · November 9, 1951 · 27 min · 4,265 words

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Orson Weld as the third man, lives of Harry Lyon. The fabulous stories of the immortal character originally created in the motion picture, The Third Man, with the Zither music by Anton Cara. You were the sort of details about how I met two very lovely Brazilian women, famed Ines and Aurora, they were very rich.

They were in Paris on a buying spree, and the three of us became insepar friends in very short order. I told him I was a dealer in masterpieces of famous painters. They were most eager to see my collection.

So I began to browse around old antique shops, looking for something to sell. Orson Wells as Harry Lyme, the third man in today's story, art is long and blind misleading. Bonjour, monsieur.

Bonjour. Please, can I help you? Just look around, thanks. Of course, if you tell me what you are looking for. I'm looking for a painting, an impressionist school perhaps. I have the few oils, this way please.

Yeah, they are. Yeah, not very good either. I have one that is a little more expensive if you would step this way. Huh? This one is very good. There's a picture of a bathe there.

And in a dark light, and from a considerable distance, it might look a little like her in water. I'll picture over carefully to see if it had a signature on it. But luckily enough, there wasn't any inscription.

a charming painting. Who painted it? It is hard to say. It's just a little bit like you're in one. And then yes, how much is it? 10,000 fine. Oh, sorry, oh man, that's a bit oborant.

It is a very fine painting. And as you say, it looks a little bit like a... Hey, my daughter, I'll give you another thousand francs and you put the picture in the heavy old gold frame there hanging in the wall.

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