Sir, I have completed the picture ['Les Faneurs / Haymakers', 1849] which you were kind enough to order, and have executed it with all possible care and conscientiousness. I ought to send it to the Exhibition, where it could be properly seen and judged. I pray you to be good enough to pay me the balance of 1,100 francs which is still due on this commission. My great need of money obliges me to ask you to let me have it as soon as possible. Accept, sir, the assurance of my pro- found respect - J. F. Millet. 8, Rue du Delta [Paris]'''

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Sir, I have completed the picture ['Les Faneurs / Haymakers', 1849] which you were kind enough to order, and have executed it with all possible care and conscientiousness. I ought to send it to the Exhibition, where it could be properly seen and judged. I pray you to be good enough to pay me the balance of 1,100 francs which is still due on this commission. My great need of money obliges me to ask you to let me have it as soon as possible. Accept, sir, the assurance of my pro- found respect - J. F. Millet. 8, Rue du Delta [Paris]'''" in the context of "Millet's quote in his letter of 30 April 1849, Paris; as cited by Mr. T. H. Bartlett in Scribner's Magazine, Warner & Co, New York / London, May 1890
• With the received money Millet could leave Paris - just before the Revolution of 13 June, 1849 - with his wife and kids, because of the outburst of cholera. He went with his friend, the printer Charles Jaque, to Barbizon where Millet would stay for the rest of his life" to mean that wisdom is timeless.