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 capable of devising any comment. Fortunately, he found it unnecessary, for this fascinating animal with ivory teeth went on at once:

How marvellous on this loathsome journey to meet a fellow artist! How grateful I am to have you for a companion de voyage! Your beautiful plays are always in my mind. They occupy the most important shelf in my library.

In two short sentences, Ambrose reflected, she had published and pluralized his comedy.

Ah monsieur. . . her pretty exhibition of dismay would have won a less diffident male at once. . . could you but know the difficulties with which. . . I must contend, the louts, the clods of clay with whom I am forced to deal, the stupid scripts which are allotted me by ces sales cochons d'Hollywood! Director, camera men, extra people, ridiculous actors, all combine to spoil my pictures, to break the beautiful image I have created with so much thought. . . . She paused, apparently to admire the phrase she had wrought. . . . Next to the artist. . . she was pensive now. . . I think it must be the author who is the most important, but what authors they give me! Stories by babes just out of a newspaper kindergarten. Nothing for me to do! Nothing for me to do!