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 patted his hand, looking up at him fondly, as if to assure him that he, at least, had deserved his happiness.

In any case, he continues to enjoy it and his popularity and his income and his whole colossal success. Charlie Chaplin is now his only rival in the public eye, and even Chaplin has to take the second place which comedy must always accept from tragedy in the republic of art.