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Updated: May 11, 2025
He had brought with him accurate drawings of a hall in the house of his bride's father, for he wished to reproduce for her the place to which she had been accustomed. As the moulding had all to be re-done, some scaffolding poles and boards were brought in and laid on one side of the great hall, and also a great wooden tank or box for mixing the lime, which was laid in bags beside it.
Did Plauchut tell you to bring a wrapper and slippers, for we do not want to sentence you to dressing up? I add that I am counting on your bringing some manuscript. The FAIRY PLAY re-done, Saint-Antoine, whatever you have finished. I hope indeed that you are in the mood for work. Critics are a challenge that stimulates. Poor Saint-Rene Taillandier is as asininely pedantic as the Revue.
"Now all is ended," he thought, "I'm like a convict who attempted escape and has been brought back and yoked again in the sweaty and manacled gang; and I must continue in and bear with this life of gross sensuality and dirty journalism, 'which I have borne and yet must bear' a wearisome repetition of what has been done and re-done a thousand times, 'till death-like sleep shall steal on me, and I may hear some horrible lodging-house keeper 'breathe o'er my dying brain a last monotony. And in various degradations my intellect will suffer, will decay; but with her refining and elevating influence, I might be a great writer.
One wing of the old house, the south, was entirely re-done; and then the great body of the workmen departed, leaving only materials for the doing of the old hall when Geoffrey Brent should have returned, for he had directed that the decoration was only to be done under his own eyes.
I remained silent, which forced her to speak. "Do you intend that I shall live here, in the flat?" "Of course. Will you please choose which of the two guest rooms you would prefer, they both have bathrooms, and you will have the decoration re-done as you wish." Silence. My exasperation augmented. "Will you also please engage a maid, and go and order every sort of clothes which you ought to have.
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