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As I did not hear from M. Pillet for quite a long time, I now began to work diligently at my composition of Rienzi, though, to my great distress, I had often to interrupt this task in order to undertake certain pot-boiling hack-work for Schlesinger. As my contributions to the Gazette Musicale proved so unremunerative, Schlesinger one day ordered me to work out a method for the Cornet a pistons.
"And the bookmakers returned not to their pens, nor the pot-boiling painters to their palettes, nor the apostles to their prophesying, being otherwise engaged and not thereto driven by inward necessity. "And the Society of Authors perished!
Genius may outlast a few such meannesses, but they will murder it at last, and the man who by pot-boiling has gained the opportunity to create a real work of art finds there is no more art left in him. He has now the leisure, the opportunity, the public: but not the power. So is it with those who lightly use so great a thing as sex.
I haven't seen them; in London they'd be called indecent, the man said who was telling me about them. Of course that's rot. He'll be here in a few days, Olga says." "She hears from him?" "It was a surprise letter; he addressed it to this shop, and I sent it on that's only pot-boiling, of course." She snatched back the paper. "But it's good in its way don't you think?" "Very good."
On such occasions I have been half inclined to make the reflection, common to all journalists, when they survey the monumental works of our brethren in the superior ranks of the literary profession: "Have I not cast my life and energy away on things ephemeral and unworthy? Have not I preferred a kind of glorified pot-boiling to the service of the spirit?"
Now, is there anything that consumes so much time as those anxieties which I call 'pot-boiling'? a vulgar expression, but it puts the whole question in a nutshell. For instance, what can eat up more time than the inability to give proper security to persons from whom you seek to borrow money when, poor at the moment, you are nevertheless rich in hope?" "Money, yes, that's right," said Margaritis.
And so there was one more function he had to perform. All those fine frenzies of his, his ideals and his enthusiasms they had served their purpose, and would fade; but before him there was still a future a drab and dreary future of perpetual pot-boiling! He recalled their bridal-night. All that had puzzled him in it and startled him how clear it was now!
He was plainly disappointed, however, that Mr. Jack was not there. "But I wanted to see him! I wanted to see him 'specially," he lamented. "You'd better stay, then. He'll be home by and by," comforted Jill. "He's gone pot-boiling." "Pot-boiling! What's that?" Jill chuckled.
I trust that it is no disrespect to the distinguished authors of these two plays to say that such plays in a great actor's repertoire represent less his versatility than his responsibilities, that pot-boiling necessity which hampers every art, and that of the actor, perhaps, most of all.
"So that," said the girl, half to herself, "is his pot-boiling." "Not a very complimentary term," commented Mr. Merrill, "for the best black-and-white work being done in New York to-day. Between my concern and two others he makes a railroad president's income out of it." "Yes, I overheard what you said to him. Thank you so much." "In return, may I ask you something?" "Certainly."
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