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He was very happy but very nervous .. .In short, I think I spent my time well, thirty five minutes is not long, but if I had stopped sooner it would have been better, because my model ended up by losing some of his good humor, and he became stiff. I followed these changes too closely .. .At the end Wagner asked to see it. He said 'Ah! Ah! It's true that I look like a Protestant minister'. But I was very happy it wasn't too much of a flop: There is something of that admirable face in it' (en) |