unearths some literary gems.
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Tarzan (of, if I remember rightly, the Apes)
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Then there is the three-dot trick. At one time those dots indicated an omission. To-day, some of our best use them as an equivalent of the cinema fade-out. Those dots prolong the effect of a word or sentence; they lend it an afterglow. You see what I mean? Afterglow ...
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(And now we’ll have a little novelty. The Great Novelists of to-day number their sections. We’ll have a number without any section. This has never been done be——
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Why was it, Luke asked himself, that she was always so merry and bright with others, and so very different when she was with him? Could it be that she wore a mask to the rest of the world, and disclosed her real self only to him? It could. It could also be just the other way round. That was the annoying part of it.
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“That’s always the way. Whenever I make a beautiful thing, some cow always gets it. It’s happened before. If I wrote my beautiful biography, some cow would parody it. The world’s full of cows.”
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He went like a lamb, too broken to resist. I confess I am worried about him. I must try to see him again if
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a chance of doing so.”
(And that shows you again, how the number of a chapter-section may be used economically.)
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(The reader is requested to look out. Once more the numbers of the section will be used as a part of the sections. The price of paper is still very high.)
“Just imagine,” said Luke. “Only this morning I was convinced that life was hell. Absolute hell.”
“And now?” asked Jona, shyly.
“Now I know that it’s
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he said, and kissed her.
Luke walked back. It was some time in the small hours that he entered his house burglariously by forcing open the window of a room that had once been called a den.
As he sat at breakfast the next morning, Dot said: “Hope they gave you a good dinner at the ‘Crown’ last night.”
“I don’t know,” he said. “I don’t really remember what we
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“All love and honey, what?” suggested Dot.
“Dot,” said Luke, “don’t be asi—
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“Oh, that’s all right,” said Dot “You don’t need to pay any at—
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tion to my chaff.”
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