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Amazing how the output of books of fiction has increased of late years, isn't it? Dear me, I can remember when 2250 would have been considered a big output, and now there are so many good writers, so many excellent writers, Mrs. Walbridge, that we are forced by competition and market conditions to bring out nearly three times that number. I wonder if you have kept up with the new writers, he went on after a pause,
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Mrs. Levett, Joan Kelly, Austen Goodheart, and so on--and Wanda Potter. Wanda Potter's last book sold over a hundred thousand.
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I haven't read any of them, I'm afraid. I've so little time----
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Just so, just so; exactly what I was saying to Payne. 'Mrs. Walbridge is a very busy woman,' I said to Payne. 'She hasn't time--she can't be _expected_ to have time--to read all these things, so it's quite natural that--that----' He broke off, and taking up a little bronze figure of a poodle, that served as a paper weight, he examined it carefully for a moment.
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I'm sure you understand what I mean, Mrs. Walbridge,
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Happy House ; Ferdie and his new cedar cigar chest yawning to be filled; of an unpaid tailor's bill; of his annual cough (Ferdie coughed himself regularly to Torquay every autumn); she saw Paul and his new edition de luxe of Swinburne, and the Rowlandson
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Horse Fair he had taken her to see in King Street, St. James's--the
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Horse Fair that was to cost
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She saw the little sea-green frock that hung in the great Frenchman's window in Hanover Square, the little frock that would look so beautiful on Grisel. She saw a vision of a hecatomb of roasts of beef and saddles of mutton, and oysters, and burgundy, that she was longing to offer up to her family gods. She saw the natural skunk coat she had been planning to give to poor dear Caroline for Christmas. She saw the new bathroom, on which the men were already working, that was to be Grisel's. Then these things passed away, and the corner of the table again appeared, and Mr. Lubbock was saying, in that kind, dreadful voice of his:
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I feel quite sure that you understand our position, Mrs. Walbridge, and, after all, the reduction is not of very great consequence.