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She had learned her trade not well enough, for no superior man or woman ever feels that he or she knows the trade well enough but well enough to begin to use it. Said Moldini: "When the great one, who has achieved and arrived, is asked for advice by the sweet, enthusiastic young beginner, what is the answer? Always the same: 'My dear child, don't!
"Ah," he breathed again. "And if he were successful in selling his writings, how much would he probably make in a year?" "In a year?" I repeated, to gain time. "Mr. Kendricks is comparatively a beginner. Say fifteen hundred two thousand twenty-five hundred." "And that would not go very far in New York." "No; that would not go far in New York."
It was no easy matter to get the basket down here, I assure you; we ladies were only permitted to load ourselves, one with a little kettle, and the other with a tea-pot, but this was quite enough, as crossing the creek by a series of jumps from one wet stone to another is not easy for a beginner. Mr. I had heard at night the peculiar cry or call of these birds, but had not seen one until to-day.
Never seeing me in the day-time, she concluded that I was a gambler, and that the light in my window was placed there by my mother to guide her erring son home. The trouble with the beginner at the writing game is the long, dry spells, when there is never an editor's cheque and everything pawnable is pawned.
But we do not think it advisable to enter into a discussion of these elaborate, technical theories, which are apt to confuse the beginner, and to distract his attention from the important facts of the case.
I intend to make myself a good German scholar by the time of my arrival in England. I have already, at leisure moments broken the ice. I have read about half of the New Testament in Luther's translation, and am now getting rapidly, for a beginner, through Schiller's History of the Thirty Years' War.
Sometimes she ventures to hope that the editor will judge her work leniently, since she is only a beginner. Sometimes, with affecting candour, she avows that she does not expect for a moment to be accepted. Sometimes she requests that in case of refusal the editor will advise her where next to send the manuscript.
"Meg's an awful girl for books," he said, as he carried off a bundle of yellow-paper-bound French novels and one or two volumes of the Temple Classics to her room. "She'd better begin on this," he said, as he returned in search of still more. "She can't do better" he lifted up the weighty tome of Maspero's Dawn of Civilization. "A bit dry, isn't it, for a beginner?" "Not for Meg," Freddy said.
I learned that even the lowest beginner earned five dollars a week. It was just the sum I was paying for a pair of clean sheets every night at a grand hotel.
Even a beginner must be thrilled by the beauty and the power of these two works. Two other noteworthy dramas of the period are Colombe's Birthday and In a Balcony , which, however, met with scant appreciation on the stage, having too much subtle analysis and too little action to satisfy the public.
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