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Jaffery

CHAPTER IX
19/27

There," he wrote the cable hurriedly and read it aloud, "'Shall not deliver anything.

Only too glad to cancel contract.' He'll he the most surprised and disgusted man in America!" "Need you put it quite like that ?" said Doria.
"It's the only way to make him understand.

He has been buzzing round me like a wasp for the past month.

Now he's squashed.

And now," said he, getting up and lighting a cigarette, "I'm not going to do another stroke of work for three months." It was the news of this last announcement that relieved my mind: not the story of Adrian's intolerable treatment of the editor, which was of a piece with his ordinary attitude towards his own genius.


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