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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ll No, I dropped you a line last night, and marked the letter Private and Immediate. Sir C. That's just where you made a mistake. We get about five thousand letters a day here. A van brings the first post every morning direct from St. Martin's-le-Grand. Going to a side- table, and fingering a large batch of letters.] Our sorting clerks have instructions to put aside all letters addressed to me personally and marked private or urgent, and they are always opened last. Opening a letter.] Yes, here's yours. Francis. Why are they opened last? Sir C. It's the dodge of every begging-letter writer in England to mark his envelope Private and Urgent. Throws letter into waste-paper basket, after glancing at it.] Francis. I see. You may be said to have an organisation here Sir C. putting his hands in his pockets and smiling superiorly]. You bet Considerably over a thousand people earn their bread and butter in this building, and wages run from five bob on to a hundred pounds a week. What price that, eh? Francis. Well, Charlie, we were never given to praising each other, but I'll go this far?you're a caution Sir C. I believe I am. In fact, I must be. I've revolutionised journalism, and I'm only forty. A pause.] You're forty-one. Francis. And the staid Johnny is forty-three. I was asking the mater the other day in a letter what she thought of having three sons all over forty. Sir C. Does she make you write to her every week ? Francis. Yes. Sir C. So she does me, too. I never know what to say to her. Francis. Been down to the Five Towns lately? Sir C. No?not lately. No time, you know. Francis. And Johnny? Does he come much to London? Sir C. Not often, I think. I imagine from what the mater says that his practice must be growing pre...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217905046 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217905048 |
| Weight | 0.30 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.20 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 82 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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