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New Grub Street

CHAPTER XII
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You know of Jedwood, don't you?
He was Culpepper's manager; started business about half a year ago, and it looks as if he would do well.

He married that woman--what's her name ?--Who wrote "Mr Henderson's Wives" ?' 'Never heard of it.' 'Nonsense!--Miss Wilkes, of course.

Well, she married this fellow Jedwood, and there was a great row about something or other between him and her publishers.

Mrs Boston Wright told me all about it.

An astonishing woman that; a cyclopaedia of the day's small talk.


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