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not think so ill of your sex as to believe that 

 they would knowingly promote the present 

 barbarities of this sort. Join, "an you love 

 me" (I have no right to presume this) the 

 Bird-protection Society. 



' I must confess to such delight in the drama 

 that I never care to read newspaper accounts 

 or criticisms of plays, though I am always 

 delighted to hear what anyone of intelligence 

 thinks of anything new. I suppose that your 

 view of art ... is the true highest, but I con- 

 fess that I think that the feeling that one has 

 done one's best in art or anything else is very 

 considerable reward, and failure only shows, in 

 such cases, that one's best is not good enough, 

 and certainly is a great help in making one 

 select the line for which nature has adapted one. 



' I am going to ask an impertinent question 

 that you need not answer unless disposed to do 

 so. Have you ever failed to please an audience 

 in any part into the study of which you had 

 thrown your whole mind? I do not for a 

 moment doubt that you may have often failed 

 to satisfy yourself, because with your love for 



