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Night and Day

CHAPTER XXIV
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Her immediate task was to decide whether the whole letter should be printed, or only the paragraph which mentioned Shelley's name, and she reached out for a pen and held it in readiness to do justice upon the sheet.

Her pen, however, remained in the air.

Almost surreptitiously she slipped a clean sheet in front of her, and her hand, descending, began drawing square boxes halved and quartered by straight lines, and then circles which underwent the same process of dissection.
"Katharine! I've hit upon a brilliant idea!" Mrs.Hilbery exclaimed--"to lay out, say, a hundred pounds or so on copies of Shakespeare, and give them to working men.

Some of your clever friends who get up meetings might help us, Katharine.

And that might lead to a playhouse, where we could all take parts.


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