The Toupee Artist
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Our Count only smiled slightly.
I think that Arkadie heard too, because when he was making me up for the part of the Duchess in the last play he put, as he had never done before, so much powder on me, that the costumier, who was a Frenchman, began to shake it off and said:
"Trop beaucoup, trop beaucoup," and taking a brush he flicked it away.