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Diana of the Crossways

CHAPTER XVII
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Could he possibly wish, or bear, to, have anything altered?
But she had reason to desire an extended sale of the work.

Her aim, in the teeth of her independent style, was at the means of independence--a feminine method of attempting to conciliate contraries; and after despatching the last sheets to the printer, he meditated upon the several ways which might serve to, assist her; the main way running thus in his mind:--We have a work of genius.
Genius is good for the public.

What is good for the public should be recommended by the critics.

It should be.

How then to come at them to, get it done?
As he was not a member of the honourable literary craft, and regarded its arcana altogether externally, it may be confessed of him that he deemed the Incorruptible corruptible;--not, of course, with filthy coin slid into sticky palms.


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