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This is the moment for decision. Remain now among us, and pursue your studies with a calm mind, and I promise you--I, Jouffroy, who have the right to speak on this matter--I promise you shall have a success beyond the wildest dreams of your ambition. Madame, you do not guess your own power. I know how your genius can be saved to the world; I know the artist's nature. Have I not had the experience of twenty years? I know what feeds and rouses it, and I know what kills it. And this I tell you, Madame, that if you stay here, you have a stupendous future before you; if you return to your fogs and your tea-parties--ah, then, Madame, your genius will die and your heart will be broken.