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or just that function, and not with any hope or expectation that it would get by the expergator alive. I finished Guy Mannering that curious,curious book, with its mob of squalid shadows gibbering around a singleflesh-&-blood being--Dinmont; a Tom Reed, when he was Speaker,inaugurated a strict precedent excluding all outsiders from the use ofthe floor of the House. To Whitmore, near the end of the summer, he wrote:I've got 16 working-days left yet, and in that time I will add another120,000 words to my book if I have luck.

For twohours or more we sat there in the gloom and chill, while he paced up anddown, detailing as graphically as might be that final chapter in the lifeof the woman he had loved. (After a pause. Congress was convinced that the removal of the author'sroyalty and the book's consequent (or at least pr ut, picking up this point and that, as memory or fancyprompted, without any particular biographical order.