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"And Paula had wanted to do, to make beauty herself But she was sorely puzzled whether she should devote herself toof work under the bestback to her drawing Fro

"And so, with her love of the best, her soul and heart full of beauty, she grew quite puzzled and worried over herself, as to which talent was the greater and if she had genius at all I suggested a complete rest fros, she developed a talent for dancing But always she harked back to her hty Her trouble was that she was too talented--"

"Too diversely talented," Graham amplified

"Yes, that is better," Mrs Tully nodded "But froenius is a far cry, and to save my life, at this late day, I don't knohether the child ever had a trace of genius in her She has certainly not done anything big in any of her chosen things"

"Except to be herself," Graha," Mrs Tully accepted with a smile of enthusiasm "She is a splendid, unusual woman, very unspoiled, very natural And after all, what does doing things aive more for one of Paula'sstallion--than for all her pictures if every one was a masterpiece But she was hard for irl that never grew up But gracious, she can put on the grand air when she needs to I call her thethat ever happened to her It was then that she really seemed for the first time to find herself It was this way"

And Mrs Tully went on to sketch the year of travel in Europe, the resu in Paris, and the conviction she finally reached that success could be achieved only by struggle and that her aunt's hed "She--why, she dismissed erest allowance, and went down into the Latin Quarter on her own, batching with two other Airls And she uess what he was doing then Running a cabaret--oh, not these modern cabarets, but a real students' cabaret of sorts It was very select They were a lot of madmen You see, he was just back fro at the ends of the earth, and, as he stated it, he wanted to stop living life for a while and to talk about life instead