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The Wrecker

CHAPTER XVI
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But I could bear up better if it weren't for press comments.

Often and often, Loudon, I recall to mind your most legitimate critiques of the press system.

They published an interview with me, not the least like what I said, and with JEERING comments; it would make your blood boil, it was literally INHUMANE; I wouldn't have written it about a yellow dog that was in trouble like what I am.

Mamie just winced, the first time she has turned a hair right through the whole catastrophe.

How wonderfully true was what you said long ago in Paris, about touching on people's personal appearance! The fellow said--" And then these words had been scored through; and my distressed friend turned to another subject.


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