17/21 Not to have found your formula," he said solemnly, "is not to have found yourself." "Perhaps I haven't been looking in very likely places," said Rickman, nobly touched, as he always was by the more personal utterances of the master. Do you go there to find the ideal, or in pursuit of the fugitive actuality ?" "Whichever you like to call it. Its name on the programme is Miss Poppy Grace." "Look here, Rickman," said Jewdwine, gently; "when are you going to give up this business ?" "Which business ?" "Well, at the moment I referred to your situation in the Gin Palace of Art--" "I can't chuck it just yet. It would spoil all his pleasure in that new plate-glass and mahogany devilry. |