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I do not think she prided herself much on the literary merit of the tale. But if she could bring the papers to praise it, if she could induce Mudie to circulate it, if she could manage that the air for a month should be so loaded with the wheel of fortune, as to make it necessary for the reading world to have read or to have said that it read the book - then she would pride herself very much upon her work.
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