Part 20 (1/2)
”nobody knoas the candid admission ”Nor yet why It is the case of many of us, my dear, believe me”
”But why”--M Binet took his of a very pretty quarrel--”why do you say that Leandre is wrong?”
”To be general, because he is alrong To be particular, because I judge the audience of Guichen to be too sophisticated for 'The Heartless Father'”
”You would put it more happily,” interposed Andre-Louis--as the cause of this discussion--”if you said that 'The Heartless Father' is too unsophisticated for the audience of Guichen”
”Why, what's the difference?” asked Leandre
”I didn't iested that it is a happier way to express the fact”
”The gentle subtle,” sneered Binet
”Why happier?” Harlequin de 'The Heartless Father' to the sophistication of the Guichen audience, than the Guichen audience to the unsophistication of 'The Heartless Father'”
”Let roaned Polichinelle, and he took his head in his hands
But froed by Climene who sat there between Columbine and Madame
”You would alter the comedy, would you, M Parvissimus?” she cried
He turned to parry her est that it be altered,” he corrected, inclining his head
”And hoould you alter it, monsieur?”
”I? Oh, for the better”
”But of course!” She was sleekest sarcasm ”And hoould you do it?”
”Aye, tell us that,” roared M Binet, and added: ”Silence, I pray you, gentlemen and ladies Silence for M Parvissihter, and ser If I escape with my life, I shall be fortunate Why, then, since you pin me to the very wall, I'll tell you what I should do I should go back to the original and help inal?” questioned M Binet--the author
”It is called, I believe, 'Monsieur de Pourceaugnac,' and ritten by Moliere”
Somebody tittered, but that somebody was not M Binet He had been touched on the raw, and the look in his little eyes betrayed the fact that his bonhoethe ideas of Moliere”
”There is always, of course,” said Andre-Louis, unruffled, ”the alternative possibility of two greatupon parallel lines”
M Binet studied the young man attentively a moment He found him bland and inscrutable, and decided to pin hi from Moliere?”
”I advise you to do so,reply