I must do something.

I thought I might write for _Raffini_, for--for practice, you know--the articles they print are really very bad--and afterward arrange to send Paris letters to some of the big American newspapers.

I know a woman who does it I assure you she is quite stupid.

And she is paid--but enormously!" Mr.
Parke repressed his inclination to smile.
"I believe that sort of thing over there is very much in the hands of the syndicates--McClure and those fellows," he said, "and they won't look at you unless you're known.
I don't want to discourage you, Miss Bell, but it would take you at least a year to form a connection.

You would have to learn Paris about five times as well as you fancy you know it already, and then you would require a special course of training to find out what to write about.