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Mag.
It's a very different thing for me to write a novel than for
you to do it.
cilb.
Agreed.
Magt.
For you are a man and free - you have no need to steel away
moments, those in which you dare to ba an artist- You do not
set your future on the case.
Do you?
Gilb.
Mag.
I have done it. half an hour ago, Clement left me because
I confessed that I had written a:novel.
Gilb.
left you? For ever?
Mag.
I don't know. It may be. He left in anger. He is incal-
culable. What conclusion he will come to concerning me, I
cannot foresee.
world if I could
Gilb.
So he has forbidden you to write. He will not allow his love
to use her mind beyond "presoribed limits". perfect. And this
is the flower of the nation. Ah! Yes the flower. And you,
are you not deshamed to experience in the arms of such an Cidiot
the feelings that once you - -