Charles Augustus Howell was John Ruskin's secretary, agent and model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and exhumer of Lizzie S | dG1fbjlDZThTdWNDN3M
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00:00 [MUSIC]
00:10 What a bunch of vampires.
00:18 >> You don't say.
00:19 >> I am in as a sole agent.
00:21 [MUSIC]
00:26 >> Dispensed with your secretary, Mr. Howell.
00:29 >> What do you mean?
00:30 >> I'm not a terrorist, or even a revolutionary, or even an artist.
00:35 [MUSIC]
00:38 You do not need to have a painting ready in order to sell it.
00:40 You get paid in advance.
00:42 >> Have you seen my paintings?
00:44 I am the burden that I carry myself.
00:49 >> I'm very touched by your words.
00:51 [MUSIC]
00:54 >> [FOREIGN]
01:01 >> Why on earth would anyone want to screw up my life now?
01:03 >> Come on.
01:06 >> This will become known, and you'll be finished.
01:08 >> I'm tired, I'm worn out.
01:10 >> Excuse me.
01:11 >> What?
01:11 >> All the work falls to me, and in the end I get nothing, nothing.
01:14 >> I wanted to see for myself what it is that you've done.
01:18 >> And what have I done?
01:21 >> You two are brothers.
01:23 >> Come on.
01:25 >> I'm great.
01:26 >> I made Dante Gabriel what he was.
01:30 Mark my words, 200 years from now, people will still talk of him thanks to me.
01:34 [MUSIC]