Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


"And Paula had wanted to do, to make beauty herself. But she was
sorely puzzled whether she should devote herself to music or painting.
In the full swing of work under the best masters in Boston, she could
not refrain from straying back to her drawing. From her easel she was
lured to modeling.


"And so, with her love of the best, her soul and heart full of
beauty, she grew quite puzzled and worried over herself, as to which
talent was the greater and if she had genius at all. I suggested a
complete rest from work and took her abroad for a year. And of all
things, she developed a talent for dancing. But always she harked back
to her music and painting. No, she was not flighty. Her trouble was
that she was too talented--"

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