two in the evening
This , inevitably , resulted in Vigné 's marriage ; a ceremony unattended by Pleydon except by the presence of a very liberal check . The life-size version of his Simon Downige was again under way -- it had been torn down , Linda knew , more than once -- and he was in a fever of composition . Nor was this , she decided with Arnaud , his only oppression : the Asiatic fever clung to him with disquieting persistence . Pleydon himself admitted he had a degree or two in the evening . Linda was seated in his studio near Central Park West , perhaps a year later , and she observed aloud that so much wet clay around was bad for him . He laughed : nothing now could happen to him , he was forever beyond accident , sickness , death -- his statue for the monument in Hesperia was finished . It stood revealed before them , practically as Linda had first seen it , but enlarged , towering , as if the vision it portrayed had grown , would continue to grow eternally , because of the dignity of its hope , the necessity of its realization .