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New Grub Street

CHAPTER VI
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And Alfred Yule himself had noticed that paper in The Wayside.

That's how things work, you know; reputation comes with a burst, just when you're not looking for anything of the kind.' 'What's the new magazine to be called ?' asked Amy.
'Why, they propose The Current.

Not bad, in a way; though you imagine a fellow saying "Have you seen the current Current ?" At all events, the tone is to be up to date, and the articles are to be short; no padding, merum sal from cover to cover.

What do you think I have undertaken to do, for a start?
A paper consisting of sketches of typical readers of each of the principal daily and weekly papers.

A deuced good idea, you know--my own, of course--but deucedly hard to carry out.


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