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copies to defray the expenses of printers’ bills. But how
am I to know what loss he may incur? He may tell me
that Mudie took sixty copies and Smith twenty-five. I
cannot afford to lose money now, with Joe clamouring to
give up my agency. 11 faut toujours os er, mais il faut
savoir oser, and after some correspondence and a few
visits I agreed to pay forty pounds if my book did not
prove successful.
“I am going to Ireland to-night and shall return to
London in about a month. I suppose the printer will go
on with the setting and will have half the book set when
I come back. I shall not want the proofs sent to Dublin
for I have my agent’s accounts to look into and I have a
new book in my head which I would like to give my mind
to on the journey.” When I had left Mr. Tinsley’s office,
rather perturbed at making myself liable for the printing
of a book, I stopped at the telegraph office to send mes-
sages to my mother and to Joe Blake.
copies to defray the expenses of printers’ bills. But how
am I to know what loss he may incur? He may tell me
that Mudie took sixty copies and Smith twenty-five. I
cannot afford to lose money now, with Joe clamouring to
give up my agency. 11 faut toujours os er, mais il faut
savoir oser, and after some correspondence and a few
visits I agreed to pay forty pounds if my book did not
prove successful.
“I am going to Ireland to-night and shall return to
London in about a month. I suppose the printer will go
on with the setting and will have half the book set when
I come back. I shall not want the proofs sent to Dublin
for I have my agent’s accounts to look into and I have a
new book in my head which I would like to give my mind
to on the journey.” When I had left Mr. Tinsley’s office,
rather perturbed at making myself liable for the printing
of a book, I stopped at the telegraph office to send mes-
sages to my mother and to Joe Blake.