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If he sends me my hundred thousand francs, and two hundred thousand more for his half of our share, I shall then see about it. But he will take good care not to send them for an affair which needs five years' pot-boiling before you get any broth. If he has only carried off, as they say, three hundred thousand francs, he will want the income of all of that to live suitably in foreign countries."
"She'll be the making of him. Such wives always are." But I held that he would lose something, that he would not be the same Jimmie. Jimmie wrote plays and plays. In between he wrote pot-boiling books. The pot-boilers were needed, because none of his plays were accepted. He used to stop in our office and joke about it.
You won't have to play a part as far as the pot-boiling goes," added his monitress viciously. "Only, don't let her know that the rewards of your shame run to high-powered cars and high-class apartments. Remember, you're poor but honest. Perhaps she'll give you money." "Perhaps she won't," retorted the youth explosively. "Oh, it will be done tactfully; never fear.
No, what happened to Millet in 1849 was simply that he resolved to do no more pot-boiling, to consult no one's taste but his own, to paint what he pleased and as he pleased, if he starved for it. He went to Barbizon for a summer's holiday and to escape the cholera.
She stepped inside, facing him with bright, inscrutable eyes. "Why have you been fooling me about your circumstances?" she demanded. "D -n Merrill!" said Julien with fervor. "It's true that your 'pot-boiling' brings you a big income?" "Yes." "Then why do you take employment as a chauffeur?" "I don't. That car belongs to me." "And your being a waiter?
"A brand snatched from the pot-boiling," returned the Bonnie Lassie, quite pleased with her next turn, which was more than her companion was. "Please don't be clever. Be nice and tell me " "'Be nice, sweet maid, and let who will be clever," declaimed the Bonnie Lassie, who was feeling perverse that day.
He wrote an anonymous article, setting forth some of his amusing experiences, and contrasting the credit side of the "pot-boiling" ledger with the debit side of the "real art" ledger. This article was picturesque, and a magazine published it, paying twenty-five dollars for it, and so giving him another month's lease of life.
This is the only evidence against her, and that so sane and sensible a man as the artist lived with her all his life and cherished her, is evidence enough that Pirkheimer didn't tell the truth. When Durer died he was in good circumstances and instead of being overworked, he for many years had done no "pot-boiling," but had followed investigations along lines that pleased him.
"And because Peter Quick Banta would break his foolish old heart if you left him entirely," supplemented the sculptress. Julien flushed and stood looking like an awkward child. "Did you tell all this stuff to Miss Holland?" he asked. "Oh, no! She thinks that your pot-boiling is a desperate and barely sufficient expedient to keep the wolf from the door.
This pot-boiling connection of Berlioz was never known to the public till after he became a distinguished man, though he was accustomed to speak in vague terms of his early dramatic career as if it were a matter of romantic importance. At last, however, he was relieved of the necessity of singing on the stage to amuse the Paris bourgeoisie, and in a singular fashion.
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