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1 1|           statesman, inspiring an artist, helping an~inventor and
2 3| well-defined~outlines reminded an artist of the Venus of the Middle
3 4|          Frascati, and often won. Artist by nature~and really profound,
4 6|           men, would have made an artist~and thinker shudder as they
5 7|         my natural instinct as an artist. We women have politics
6 7|   vine-leaves themselves, and~the artist had not forgotten the graceful
7 8|           what I am" [reads]: "An artist~who might be employed by
8 8|           give you a touch of the~artist, Monsieur Rabourdin!"~ ~
9 8|       right in saying you were an artist? Still, it is a pity you~