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The society in which he lived and moved was as rich as any in the world in the kind of narrative he had discussed with Darco. Little by little he got to take Darco's view. It is the view of ninety per cent, of men of the world. A naturally pure mind never learns to love nastiness, but it learns to tolerate it, for the sake of the wit which sometimes lives with it.
How many people do you think there are in the world who will give you the salary Darco gave you, or treat you as he treated you? Oh, you needn't look at me in that way, Paul, as if I were responsible. It is none of my doing, and I wash my hands of it. 'But, Claudia, cried Paul, 'I told you what I was going to do.
Darco shook the room again by a new plunge into the armchair, and the trembling landlady cleared away. 'Now, dake nodes! he roared, as she left the room. 'I shall be very glad to take notice, sir, said the landlady. 'Nodes! shouted Darco. 'Nodes. I am not dalking to you. I am dalking to my brivade zegredary. Paul seized a pencil, set a pile of paper before him on the table, and waited.
I have known an Armstrong for some years who was rather a glever vellow. Vot? Ant now I gome agross an Armstrong who is a plithering impecile. Eh? 'Now, my dear Darco,'Paul answered, 'I dare say that your criticism of the stuff I sent you is quite just I haven't, indeed, the remotest doubt about it But I have been out of health and worried, and now I am here for work.
But there are no new iteas, and you may take my vort for it. If anypoty asks who told you that, say it was Cheorge Dargo. 'Let me read it to you, Paul urged. 'It's hardly likely that a youngster like myself is going to have the cheek to charge you with having stolen your ideas now, is it? Darco smoothed a little. 'You could tell me if there's anything in it, or if I'm wasting time.
'I want to have your judgment on it. 'Dake it away! cried Darco; 'dake it away. I am wriding blays myselluf, ant I will nod look at other beoble's. No. Dake it away! Paul stared at him in confusion. 'I do not vant to look at anypoty's blays, said Darco. 'I haf got alreaty all the tramatic iteas there ever haf been in the vorldt all there efer will be.
'Ah, well, said Annette with an equal brightness, 'you shall see. There were still two days' work to be done at the comedy, and Darco was resolute not to leave for London until all was finished.
Warr, who at a gesture had followed Darco from the theatre, appeared with a basket in his hand, and was followed by a man who bore a larger basket on his shoulder. 'The governor sends his highly superior compliments, ladies and gentlemen, said Mr. Warr, 'and his polite request that you will be so very kind as to forget the dinner-hour. Sandwiches, ladies and gentlemen.
There was a plentiful breakfast downstairs, and it was of a better quality than the aspect of the house might have seemed to warrant Paul did fall justice to it, and when the cloth was cleared Darco laid writing materials on the table. He said that his sight was failing, and that he had been advised to rest his eyes as much as possible.
Paul followed, and in half a minute found himself for the first time within the walls of a theatre and on the stage. The darkened auditorium loomed beyond the solitary T-bracket like a great sepulchre. A hundred people, more or less, were gathered on the stage. 'Act dwo! roared Darco at the moment of his entrance. 'Glear for Act dwo. People began to dribble into the outlying darkness.
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