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before been so self-confident.
‘I know I shall be a great artist,’ he said to himself. ‘I feel
it in me.’
A thrill passed through him as another thought came,
but even to himself he would not put it into words:
‘By George, I believe I’ve got genius.’
He was in fact very drunk, but as he had not taken more
than one glass of beer, it could have been due only to a more
dangerous intoxicant than alcohol.

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