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I JOKING APART 1

II CHINESE TORTURE 9

V WHY NOT REST? 50

VI "WHAT THE DEVIL?" CLUB 68

X FIDELITY 124

XX LETTERS OF GEORGINA BROWN 315

But there was no difficulty in all this. The trouble was with that section of the public which wants a magnifying glass and a dissecting implement before it can enjoy a pinned-out butterfly. Aunt Mary, who takes a view altogether different from mine on almost every subject, but who is really a very sound woman and a good judge of what people think, read through my manuscript and said:

"But, my dear Martha, it is by no means clear what it is all about."

This put me in a fever. If there is one thing I dislike more than another it is to be told that something I am interested in is "not clear."

"Well, it is certainly not thick," I replied, my poor mind harking back, as it nearly always does, to some such homely matter as the soup.

"Now that is an excellent example of what I mean!" Aunt Mary complained. "I say that many things in your book are not clear, and your mind at once flies off on the word 'clear,' and you imagine yourself at table, with a greasy waiter leaning over your shoulder holding a plate of kidney pur?e in one hand and bouillon in the other. You forget that you don't carry your audience with you."

"You are not clear now, yourself," I said with a certain pleasure. "Would you please strain your criticism once more and add a little bit more beef."

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