Crossword-Solution: STROUD 6 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Her only idea was to have him done by a fashionable painter--ah, poor Stroud! She thought it the surest way of proclaiming his greatness--of forcing it on a purblind public.

Stroud is the only whole I ever knew.” “You ever knew? But you just said--” Gisburn had a curious smile in his eyes.

That’s the reason why I don’t dabble any more, my dear Rickham; or rather Stroud himself is the reason.” For the first time my idle curiosity about my companion turned into a serious desire to understand him better.

But, oh, at that minute, Rickham, was there anything on earth I wouldn’t have given to have Stroud alive before me, and to hear him say: ‘It’s not too late--I’ll show you how’? “It WAS too late--it would have been, even if he’d been alive.

And he painted Stroud without wincing; and she hung the picture among her husband’s things....” He flung himself down in the arm-chair near mine, laid back his head, and clasping his arms beneath it, looked up at the picture above the chimney-piece.