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New Grub Street

CHAPTER III
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Do you think you will keep up their acquaintance in London ?' 'Can't say.

I wonder what sort of a woman that mother really is?
Can't be so very gross, I should think.' 'Miss Harrow knows nothing about her, except that she was a quite uneducated girl.' 'But, dash it! by this time she must have got decent manners.

Of course there may be other objections.

Mrs Reardon knows nothing against her.' Midway in the following morning, as Jasper sat with a book in the garden, he was surprised to see Alfred Yule enter by the gate.
'I thought,' began the visitor, who seemed in high spirits, 'that you might like to see something I received this morning.' He unfolded a London evening paper, and indicated a long letter from a casual correspondent.

It was written by the authoress of 'On the Boards,' and drew attention, with much expenditure of witticism, to the conflicting notices of that book which had appeared in The Study.


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