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Elliott made one -- and offered a toast to `` la plus jolie demoiselle de Paris , '' which was drunk amid great enthusiasm and responded to by Gethryn , ending with a toast to Rowden . Rowden 's response was stiff , but most correct . The same could not be said of Clifford 's answer to the toast , `` The struggling Artist -- Heaven help him ! '' Towards 1 am Mr Clifford 's conversation had become incoherent . But he continued to drink toasts . He drank Yvonne 's health five times , he pledged Rowden and Gethryn and everybody else he could think of , down to Mrs Gummidge and each separate kitten , and finally pledged himself . By that time he had reached the lachrymose state .