New Grub Street
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You play Jasper Milvain, who opens the morning by observing that a man is being executed in London at this exact minute, and that he is not. Three envelopes wait by your plate: an editor's admirably brief refusal, an invitation to a dinner full of journalists and publishers, and a letter from a friend whose novel is going badly. Your mother works out the railway fare. Your sisters, who are planning work of their own, ask which letter you answer first.
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