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It was impossible to tell how he could read right through a tenth-rate book, and yet know nothing of the greatest masterpieces. "That is all very well," said Christophe. "But you will never do anything if you do not work." "Oh! I don't need to. We are rich." "The devil! Then it is a very serious state of things. Do you want to be a man who does nothing and is good for nothing?" "No.
But bah! it was a poor provincial place, Dublin, in the old days of which I speak; and many a tenth-rate German residency is more genteel.
But as local managements of provincial theatres shape their existences so as to avoid responsibilities of any kind save the maintenance of their bars and the deduction of their percentages from the box-office receipts, Paul knew that it was ludicrous to expect it to interest itself in the correspondence of an obscure member of a fourth-rate company which had once played to tenth-rate business within its mildewed walls.
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