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"Will you kiss me, Clay? We might have that to remember." But they were not to have even that, for the taxicab drew up before her hotel. It was one of the absurd anti-climaxes of life that they should part with a hand-clasp and her formal "Thank you for a lovely evening." Audrey was the better actor of the two.
Anti-climaxes should be avoided. "It may truly be said that program making is in itself a high art. It is difficult to give advice on this subject by any general statement. Generalizations are too often misleading. I would advise the young artist to study carefully the programs of the most successful artists and to attempt to discover the principle underlying their arrangement.
Wouldn't it be that is isn't it a sort of anti-climax to come down here like this, after the great send-off St. Ia gave you?" She laughed nervously as she spoke, and, although a faint flush tinged her cheeks, it was easy to see that she was far from well. "What do I care about climaxes or anti-climaxes?" cried Trevanion. "I came because I couldn't help it.
"Now what can you have to say, Granville, that will not be anticlimax to this exordium?" "I will say no more if you talk of exordiums and anti-climaxes," cried he. "You accused me yesterday of affectation twice, when I was no more affected than you are." "Oh! is that my crime? Is that, what has hurt you so dreadfully? Here is the thorn that has gone in so deep!
"You'll never have a better chance to learn the trick." But the foreman had the saving grace to shun anti-climaxes. "G'wan! Take the men, I say; all of 'em, if you like." "Thanks," said Adair pleasantly. "We'll do it, and we'll take you, as well to answer for their good behavior. Let me help you up," and he stooped and snapped the big one to his feet as a man would collar a reluctant boy.
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