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The four friends sit themselves a ringside table - where they order the dinner - waiter leaves - Bob - to Blundin Why do you always insist in sitting so close to the dance floor - we came to talk and listen - and here we can do neither! Blundin You fellows could do the talking - but I ^[[came here]] [[strikeout]] want to do [[/strikeout]] the looking - The muchachas here are very beautiful - both gringas - and spanish - and since they "go" with the dinner like the wine - I want to be intoxicated by both - so the closer the better! Jim OK. but don't act like a whirling dervish when the show starts. Try to restrain yourself - don't be loud! Blundin Restrain myself! How can sit here like a wooden Indian when the star attraction - ^[[Dolores]] - a gypsy-dancer and singer does her stuff - eh? Wait till you see her - and then answer! Alberto Yes boys - when that Dolores - begins to sing and dance - even I can hardly restrain myself - Besides [[End page]] [[Start page]] we have all evening to gab - and what I have to say is short and maybe to the point, - I hope. Blundin Talk all you want professor - I don't listen with my eyes! The mucisians glide in - tune their instruments while waiting for the leader and M.C. - he's both - to show up. Alberto - Well - Boys - I have decided to take the plunge - to take art as a career - is what I mean. I'd rather paint pretty girls than eat - or drink - or sleep. It's in my blood I'd be most unhappy doing something else - even for [[strikeout]]bigger[[/strikeout]] ^[[a mint of monies]] and fatter pay. ^[[Give me]] A studio of my own here in the Village - a model or two - and enough materials and you can have the best job in N. York - even ^[[being]] president of the [[?]]Morgan Bank! With all my heart - I mean it! Bob Deprived of all the aura of romance and glamour - fiction writers have clothed it with - art as "a modus vivendi" - a way of making a living is a most precarious occupation - at its best - but - if you are happy painting - even hunger and [[reverse?]] - wont change [[strikeout]] your [[/strikeout]] your decision - I know, nor your courage - I hope, Al! Alberto I couldn't have expressed myself better - than if I were Victor Hugo himself Bob! thanks - So there it is!