: Broken Music by Bottome Phyllis - Young men Fiction; Paris (France) Fiction; Musicians Fiction

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ntil after the rehearsal.

"Until we have those few words there can be no rehearsal, Monsieur," she replied, still in the deadly undertone of controlled rage.

The Manager gave himself up for lost.

Within the Manager's small office, Liane addressed herself to the mirror and put an ostrich feather straight; she was never more terrible than when she was arranging her appearance.

Monsieur Picot shook his head.

Liane sat down, but she kept tapping her foot and playing with her muff during the manager's speech; at the end of it she breathed quickly.

"The consideration of Madame touches me to the heart," murmured Monsieur Picot, who detested her. Liane gave him a baleful look and swept on with her speech.

Monsieur Picot turned sulky; no man likes to hear his flattery taken for what it is worth, especially if it is worth nothing, and no Parisian manager will bear to be spoken of as old-fashioned.

Liane rose from her seat with a magnificent gesture of scorn.

Monsieur Picot wrung his hands in a confusion of rage and terror. How he would have loved it to have been the neck of the brutally indispensable woman before him! He had never dealt with any actress so insolent, so jealous, so terrifically shrewd about business! She had none of the pleasant failings of the real artist; only success, a success that reduced him, cowering and malignant, to any terms, even her own.

"No one who knows me could suppose me capable of jealousy," she said, in a disturbed voice.

The manager's eyelids fluttered; he bowed.

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