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foule - you belong above with the few superior ones. Tomorrow may be great for you or it may be nothing- You can have everything "si vous voulez" but I fear for you that you will float - hither and thither and the years will pass without it." He is not quite right about this - I do not waver in art from one opinion to another and there is nothing I like better than to copy a bit realistically, and I said to myself when I began Louise that she was so ideal that simply to copy her as realistically as possible would make of her an ideal work — but he did me great good and inspired me to take hold of the head more solidly than I have before and I have done a good mornings work on it and got it into better shape and

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feel pretty happy over it. He advised me to make a careful drawing of the Cloak as it happened to be there on the clay figure so I spent the afternoon doing it. No - I adjure you all not to repeat - except in a most general way, what J said to me - not to Clements or anybody. Say only if you say anything that he was "very encouraging". I cannot have my praises coming from myself over here and there is always a chance for exaggeration. So please be careful and dont be tempted to boast about me you dear Things because after all he only said what I might be -I feel that I have the mind the temperament and the heart for what he says - if my character will only be equal to it - and what an if that is.