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New Grub Street

CHAPTER VIII
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Shall you go to Finden again before long ?' 'I really don't know.' 'I'm sorry to say my mother is far from well.

In any case I must go at Christmas, but I'm afraid it won't be a cheerful visit.' Arrived in Hampstead Road he offered his hand for good-bye.
'I wanted to talk about all sorts of things.

But perhaps I shall find you again some day.' He jumped out, and waved his hat in the lurid fog.
Shortly before the end of December appeared the first number of The Current.

Yule had once or twice referred to the forthcoming magazine with acrid contempt, and of course he did not purchase a copy.
'So young Milvain has joined Fadge's hopeful standard,' he remarked, a day or two later, at breakfast.

'They say his paper is remarkably clever; I could wish it had appeared anywhere else.
Evil communications, &c.' 'But I shouldn't think there's any personal connection,' said Marian.
'Very likely not.


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